An East Hill Restoration Update
Despite a soggy February the PRO team at Oakland Cemetery has hit the ground running in 2020. Late last year we embarked on a four-year endeavor to restore 7.5 acres on the east side of the cemetery, an area referred…
Women’s Comfort Station Now Open to the Public as Exhibit Space
The Women’s Comfort Station at Oakland Cemetery is now open to the public! After several months of hard work, the Women’s Comfort Station has been restored to its original 1908 appearance. While the structure was originally constructed to serve as…
Volunteer Voices: An Interview with Lindsay McLain
I moved to Atlanta from St. Louis, Missouri in 2006. While familiarizing myself with the city, I decided to ride my bicycle through Oakland Cemetery. I was immediately enchanted. Although it was a few years before I started volunteering, I eventually signed up for Oakland’s second Saturday garden volunteer sessions, and the rest is history.
Volunteer Voices: An Interview with Walt Haber
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…
Gone with the Wind Premiere: 80 Years Later
On December 15, 1939, nearly 300,000 people crowded around the Loew’s Grand Theatre to witness the premiere of the critically-acclaimed antebellum epic, Gone with the Wind. Atlantans celebrated the film during three days of festivities, which included an extravagant costumed…
Perfectly Unique Last-Minute Gifts from Oakland’s Museum Shop
It can be difficult to find just the right gift for everyone on your list this time of year. Don't despair! We're happy to help you navigate this seasonal dilemma with these unique and reasonably-priced offerings from the Museum Shop…
Join Oakland Cemetery’s Volunteer Team
At Historic Oakland Foundation, our volunteers are essential for helping us to fulfill our mission to preserve, restore, enhance, and share Oakland Cemetery. Whether motivated by a love of history, care for our residents, or a quirky sense of humor…
Lessons from Oakland’s African American Grounds Restoration
Winter is rapidly drawing in and with it, the third and final phase of the Preservation, Restoration and Operations (PRO) Team’s efforts in the African American Grounds is coming to an end. (Though truly, at Oakland Cemetery, preservation never really…
Help Fund Critical Restoration at Oakland on Georgia Gives Day
For Georgia Gives Day we're trying to raise $15,000 to fund the critical restoration of markers, monuments and headstones are broken, leaning, or otherwise in danger of being irreparably damaged. Will you help us reach our goal? Born into slavery around…
Big Bethel A.M.E. Church and Oakland Cemetery
This Friday and Saturday mark the 89th annual production of Big Bethel A.M.E.’s Heaven Bound musical, which was first performed in 1930 to raise funds for the church following a devastating 1923 fire that forced the congregation to rebuild their…
