Tunes from the Tombs Music Festival
The first annual Tunes from the Tombs music festival in May 2011 was a two-day affair with more than 100 acts playing on multiple stages throughout the grounds.
The first annual Tunes from the Tombs music festival in May 2011 was a two-day affair with more than 100 acts playing on multiple stages throughout the grounds.
The first Sunday in the Park in September of 1978 was a celebration of Oakland's 128th anniversary by the young cemetery friends group that later became Historic Oakland Foundation. It was hosted jointly by the Atlanta Bureau of Parks and…
Historic Oakland Foundation opens the Beaumont Allen Greenhouse after raising funds and restoring function to Oakland Cemetery’s Historic greenhouse complex.
Purchase of two and a half acres outside west entrance, the first land acquisition since 1867.
1997-1999 Restoration of Visitor Center and perimeter wall by the city.
Digital Data Capture digitizes Oakland’s burial records.
Historic Oakland Cemetery, Inc., a non-profit “friends of Oakland” organization, is founded by City of Atlanta Historian Franklin Garrett; Emory physician, Louis J. Elsas, M.D. and his brother Alan; Clark College professor Dr. Alexa Henderson; Mrs. W. Perrin Nicholson, a…
Oakland Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The nomination was authored by Diana Combs, a doctoral candidate at Emory specializing in Oakland's history and iconography.
From 1936 into the 1970s the cemetery falls into disrepair.