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…
Oakland Cemetery relies on the incredible energy, dedication, and generosity of over two hundred volunteers. Working in the gardens, giving tours, staffing the Visitor Center, or giving countless hours at special and private events, Oakland volunteers never fail to amaze…
Oakland Cemetery relies on the incredible energy, dedication, and generosity of over two hundred volunteers. Working in the gardens, giving tours, staffing the Visitor Center, or giving countless hours at special and private events, Oakland volunteers never fail to amaze…
Alonzo Church Lampkin, Jr. was born in Atlanta on March 3, 1894, to Alonzo and Minnie Lampkin. Alonzo Sr. was a prominent figure in business and civic life in Atlanta. He was listed as a grocer in the 1900…
by DL Henderson The headstone belonging to Jacob McKinley is located in Phase 1 of the African American Grounds restoration project. It is a pedestal-style monument, composed of multiple units of marble “freely” stacked, one on top of another, without…
John Robert Marsh was born on October 6, 1895 in Maysville, Kentucky. He was the third of five children born to Mary Douglas Toup and Millard Fillmore Marsh. Named for president Millard Fillmore, Marsh’s father was the editor of the…