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Utoy Cemetery

Historic cemetery in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ26256325 ↗
Source-derived summary

Utoy Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries within the current city limits of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located near the intersection of Venetian Drive SW and Cahaba Drive SW in the Venetian Hills neighborhood in southwest Atlanta, it was used for burials as early as 1828.

See also

Battle of Utoy Creek

Utoy, Georgia

References

Further reading

White, T.J. (2012).

Editorial summary

“Utoy Cemetery” enters the record as historic cemetery in Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Utoy, Cemetery and Historic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1828, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Utoy, Cemetery and Historic.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Utoy Cemetery” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Utoy, Cemetery and Historic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26256325. Authority coordinates are 33.716, -84.451. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1828 and 2012.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Utoy Cemetery”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Utoy Cemetery primary sources, Utoy Cemetery archive and Utoy research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Utoy Cemetery”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Utoy Cemetery” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.