Oakland Cemetery is providing a sense of stability in an uncertain era, selling wreaths and hosting events to ring in the season – and doing so in a fashion in keeping with the coronavirus pandemic.
Tag: Oakland Cemetery
Posted inLatest News
Historic Oakland Cemetery: African American Burial Grounds capture attention
Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery has again filled the tour on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Hundreds of volunteers have already enrolled to tidy up the African American Burial Grounds, and limited openings remain to tour these grounds during February’s Black History Month.
Posted inStories of Atlanta
Unknown stories of everyday people
At the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard sits Oakland Cemetery, the City of Atlanta’s first official burial grounds. Established in 1850 on an original six acres of land, Oakland now spans 88 acres and is home to thousands of residents. Among them are names familiar to most generations of Atlantans, a “who’s who” of […]
Posted inDavid Pendered
Historic Oakland Cemetery opens gate for another view of slightly altered reality
Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery is again opening its doors to share glimpses of a slightly altered reality. This time, it’s a nighttime visit for a self-guided tour of illuminated headstones, mausolea, artworks and archival images projected throughout the cemetery – plus craft cocktails, soft drinks and live music.
Posted inLatest News
Oakland Cemetery launches $1 million campaign to protect shrinking tree canopy
By David Pendered
Oakland Cemetery is launching a $1 million fundraising campaign to preserve a tree canopy that has suffered a loss of about 50 percent since 1982. This is the latest push in the cemetery’s ongoing effort to promote and protect trees in the city’s original garden cemetery.
Posted inLatest News
Free tours filled at Oakland Cemetery’s partly restored African American Grounds
It’s good news, with a twist. The free, guided walking tours of Oakland Cemetery’s African American Grounds are sold out every weekend in Black History Month. The sell-outs happen to coincide with the completion of the first hardscape restoration in this part of the cemetery.
Posted inLatest News
Tour of mayors’ graves in Oakland Cemetery a solemn reminder before election day
The Greek leader Pericles said something about legacy that is worth recollecting in the final weekend of the campaign in Atlanta’s general election. Oakland Cemetery is putting in its 2 cents, as well.
Posted inSubmitted Photos
Photo Pick: Spirits of Oakland 10/27 & 10/29 by Kelly Jordan
Click to enlarge each photo
Posted inStories of Atlanta
Unknown stories of everyday people
At the intersection of Memorial Drive and Boulevard sits Oakland Cemetery, the City of Atlanta’s first official burial grounds. Established in 1850 on an original six acres of land, Oakland now spans 88 acres and is home to thousands of residents. Among them are names familiar to most generations of Atlantans, a “who’s who” of […]
Posted inLatest News
Oakland Cemetery offers two guided tours this week of African American Grounds
Historic Oakland Cemetery is expanding its efforts to share information about the restoration of the African American Grounds section of the city’s cemetery. Two guided tours are scheduled this week, on Wednesday and Saturday. Admission is free and registration is required.
Posted inLatest News
Former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell seeks interment in Oakland Cemetery
Former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell, now president of the Buckhead Coalition, is making arrangements to be interred in Historic Oakland Cemetery. The proposal is to get its first public discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Atlanta City Council’s Community Development Committee.
Posted inSubmitted Photos
Photo Pick: Chag Sameach – Jewish section restoration @ Oakland by Kelly Jordan
Click on each photo to enlarge:
Posted inLatest News
Oakland Cemetery returns to its roots as a ‘garden of graves’ with plant sale Saturday
Atlanta’s Historic Oakland Cemetery will give a nod to its roots as a garden cemetery when it opens its doors Saturday morning for its fifth annual Spring Plant Sale, featuring a demonstration on container gardening.
Posted inLatest News
Oakland Cemetery restores graves in African American Grounds; seeks volunteers on MLK day
Oakland Cemetery has restored the graves of two black women who accomplished the unthinkable at the turn of the 20th century. One was graduated from medical school and her sister served as a lawyer and professor at Morris Brown College.
