Mission Statement: To preserve
and maintain Linwood Cemetery
as a historic and cultural site of
importance to the city of Columbus
and its citizens, to assist the city of
Columbus in restoring, preserving,
improving, maintaining, and
managing Linwood Cemetery, and
to educate the public with respect
to the cultural and historic values
of Linwood Cemetery, and for other
educational and charitable purposes.

Welcome to Historic Linwood Foundation in Columbus, Georgia.  Please browse through our pages to learn who we are and the work we do in historic Linwood Cemetery.  We invite people from everywhere to come visit the cemetery to learn about, and to enjoy, the historical  and cultural atmosphere created by its existence.

    Historic Linwood Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1997. It was the result of an effort by the Lizzie Rutherford Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to form a Friends of Linwood Cemetery in order to focus attention on the care of the historic cemetery, long neglected by the city.

    Their first public meeting drew so many enthusiastic, concerned citizens that a full blown private, non-profit corporation was established, with eighteen members on its Board of Directors. An Executive Director was hired and work was systematically begun to survey the lots, to restore and repair some sites, and to fulfill its mission. Linwood Cemetery is owned by the city of Columbus, Georgia. The Board quickly developed a Memorandum of Understanding with the city defining the responsibilities of each group, so that the Foundation could restore and maintain the cemetery in cooperation with the City, the Sexton and staff.