Milton C. Lively donated land for the cemetery around the time the city was established in 1870, naming the road leading to Cemetery Street. Initially, two streets connected the town to the cemetery: North Cemetery Street and South Cemetery Street. After Buford Highway was built in the 1930s, South Cemetery Street was renamed Carlyle Street; the portion of North Cemetery Street west of Buford Highway became Holcomb Bridge Road in 2012. In 1916, the city acquired an additional nine acres from Lively’s descendants, expanding the cemetery to its current size of roughly 3.5 acres. The remaining six acres were transformed into Cemetery Field for sporting events in the early 1970s, with renovations completed by Gwinnett County in 1986. Residents erected the pavilion at the cemetery entrance in 1922.
Norcross City Cemetery
