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Swap the Membership Savings during SWAPtember 2023

Swap the savings during the annual SWAPtember event at 21 metro Atlanta attractions! Show your Historic Oakland Foundation membership card when you visit these participating Atlanta attractions between September 1-30, 2023 and receive $10 off a membership purchase. Or show…

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Meet “Living Statue” Bob Seymore

If you've attended Sunday in the Park at Oakland over the past ten years or so, you've no doubt seen "Living Statue" Bob Seymore hard at work entertaining visitors while standing very still. We interviewed Bob about his unusual career…

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Oakland’s 2023 Youth Landscape and Hardscape Team

This year, Historic Oakland Foundation launched a new workforce development program. The Youth Landscape and Hardscape Team (YLHT) program is a six-week program that provides steady, paid summer employment, on-the-job training, and workplace skills that prepare students for the adult…

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Bringing Grave Mounds back to Oakland

Although Oakland Cemetery is known for its historic headstones and grave markers, many graves in the Cemetery are unmarked and are not easily identifiable. In the broader Southeastern United States, especially in the Appalachian region, graves (both marked and unmarked)…

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