Bobby Jones
At the young age of fourteen, Bobby Jones was competing with some of the best golfers in the U.S. In 1930 he was a winner of "The Grand Slam" taking the trophy for The British Open U.S. Amateur and the U.S. Open! As he grew older, the trophies accumulated and eventually, he designed and created the Augusta National Golf Club where the Masters is held each year. He lived a long and successful life and was buried at Oakland on his wife's family lot. His grave has a modest marker where golf fans from all over the world frequent and leave golf balls as tokens of remembrance.
Margaret Mitchell,
author of Gone With the Wind
Carrie Steele Logan,
an ex-slave who established the first African-American orphanage (The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home) in Atlanta
Bishop Wesley John Gaines,
former slave, second pastor of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and founder of Morris Brown College
Joseph Jacobs,
the pharmacist who introduced Coca-Cola as a beverage in 1896
Jacob Elsas,
owned the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill
The Lion of Atlanta guarding nearly 3000 Confederate dead
Morris and Emanuel Rich,
founders ofone of the largest retail chains in the South
Joel Hurt,
neighborhood developer and founder of the first electric trolley system in Atlanta
Maynard Jackson,
the first African-American mayor of Atlanta
