Sometimes it’s best to focus up close in the old cemeteries. The small details are limitless.

Open in the early 1800’s this cemetery, Magnolia, was one of the first of it’s kind in the south. At first people still wanted to be buried in their own church’s graveyard. They soon filled though, then the civil war and yellow fever pandemics proved the value of separate burial grounds.

Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.