Oak Grove Cemetery

Location: Oak Grove Cemetery. This large oak shades the final resting place of many prominent citizens, including the Dart family. Generations of Darts served the City as mayor, legislators, surveyors, builders and soldiers. Private Cyrus Dart was the first ancestor in the area. He became a surgeon, settled on St. Simons Island in 1792, and married island resident Ann Harris. He then worked as a surgeon in the U.S. Army at Coleraine, near Spanish Florida. Cyrus returned to the area in 1802 as a quarantine officer for the Port of Brunswick.