Located less than a mile from downtown Atlanta and founded in 1850, Oakland Cemetery was named for the forest oaks that dominated the original six acres. Today, this 48-acre oasis of history, sculpture, gardens, and wildlife is one of the largest public…
Five Grant Park and Cabbagetown restaurants are stepping up to help save Oakland's shade by hosting dine out events for our Tree Canopy Fund. Visit one or more of these fine establishments this week and you'll enjoy a great meal…
We are pleased to announce that HOF is one of ten recipients of the 2018 Governor's Awards for the Arts and Humanities. We were chosen to receive the award, which is presented by the Office of the Governor in partnership with…
Check out this Growing a Greener World TV episode featuring Historic Oakland Cemetery's 48 acres of gardens! As you can probably guess from all the blooms, the GGW team was at Oakland this spring to film the show. We are grateful to them…
September is Tree Month at Oakland. Learn to Identify the trees around you and appreciate their importance in the Southeastern U.S. with these in-tree-guing titles from our Museum Shop: The Hidden Life of Trees Are trees social beings? In this…
On September 30, we’ll celebrate history at our 40th annual Sunday in the Park festival. As part of the festival, this year we’re excited to feature an afternoon of book talks and book signings featuring local authors and their locally…
This week in the Museum Shop we're focusing on books that bring the past to the present through photography. Atlanta in Vintage Postcards Vol. I Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street…
In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, enjoy this brief history of the paper's founding by historian Larry Upthegrove: In May of 1868, Col. Carey Wentworth Styles, while attending a convention of the Democratic political party…
Happy Preservation Month! I wanted to use this as an opportunity to talk about one of the exciting projects we have teed up in the near future. The Women’s Comfort Station is a small, single-room structure located near the Jewish…
From Oakland’s earliest decades, families have desired to enclose their loved ones’ last resting place as their financial means would allow. For some that meant wood, for others granite and iron were within reach. For less affluent families a row…