Historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia

 

I love cemeteries.  When Gina asked if I was interested in visiting Historic Oakland Cemetery, my answer was an emphatic, "Yes!"

  

 

 

 Eric, me, Gina, & Jim

 

 

 

In 1850 Atlanta purchased six acres of land to be used as a cemetery and named it Atlanta Graveyard.   It was renamed Oakland Cemetery in 1872 and expanded to forty-eight acres.  Locals enjoyed carriage rides and picnics here among the carefully tended family plots.

I took many pictures and am sharing just a few today.

The Bell Tower Building

 

Anne Cox Chambers' grave is

tastefully maintained.

 

 

The Swift Burkhardt Mausoleum

is open for the Illumine 2024

Program.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A table & chairs is set up

in the center of the 

Mausoleum.

 

Tealights add to the 

dignified setting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cemetery is hilly.

Margaret Mitchell, author of

Gone with the Wind is buried

here with her husband, John

Robert March &  her parents, 

Eugene Muse Mitchell &

Maybelle Stevens Mitchell.

 

 

 

 This is the Goodknow Family Plot

 

 

The Grant Mausoleum

has a pyramid roof.

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This Angel was chosen to

 remember a little boy.

Some graves have 

full length covers.

This grave has an Urn draped

with a Shroud.

The Austell, Kennedy, Thornton

Mausoleum is grand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Glover Thurman's

monument 

Jim & Eric sit & chat for a bit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ira Goldberg

July 27, 1947 -  December 8, 2019

His Love and Kindness

Still Live

Our Beloved Husband,

Father, Son, Brother

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We see Hebrew carved into 

the Monuments.

 

This is the Jewish Section

of the Cemetery. 

 

 

 

 

Confederate Soldiers are

buried here.

 

 

 

 

 An open field...

 

There are many unmarked

graves in Potters Field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oakland Cemetery is a quiet place to walk, explore, and learn about Atlanta's history.