Name: Black Magnolias
Start: 2025-02-08T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-08T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Visitor Center Hours & Location

The Oakland Cemetery Visitor Center will be shifting to winter weekend hours, Saturday and Sunday from 10AM – 4PM, from December 1, 2024 through February 2025. During this time, the Visitors Center will temporarily be located in the historic Bell Tower.

Thank you for your patience and our apologies for any inconvenience.

Membership Benefits for All Levels

Advance ticket sales to Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Halloween Tours
Discounted tickets for up to four people to select events like Sunday in the Park ft. Tune from the Tombs and Illumine
Free admission to any of our special topics tours for individuals listed on the membershipTwo guest tour passes to bring friends for a special topic tour
Exclusive members-only appreciation event
Member Only nights to our Spring and Fall Plant Sales
10% off purchases at our Visitor Center & Museum Store
Discounts on Scavenger Hunts, 5K races & elevated tours like Malts & Vaults, Night Fall Chronicles & Love Stories
10% off one dinner entrée at Six Feet Under Pub and Fish House (must show membership card to redeem discount)

There are two ways to search burials: mapped burials and unlocated burials. Mapped Burials have a documented lot location at Oakland. If a burial is unlocated, that may mean the individual was moved moved to another cemetery. It may also mean there are incomplete records for the burial that do not allow it to mapped.

To find the burial location and record, enter the name of the individual. The tool will locate the individual on the map with a black dot. Clicking on the black dot pulls up the burial record and section information.

Explore historic Oakland Cemetery, where Atlanta’s history lives. Open daily from dawn to dusk.

UPCOMING EVENTS & TOURS

Crime through Time

Fifty Ways to Die

Oakland’s Music Makers

We Shall Overcome: African American Stories from Civil War to Civil Rights

Black Magnolias

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Help us preserve, protect, and share the city’s oldest historical and cultural landmark.

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Special Topic Tour

The Women of Oakland

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