Historic Oakland Foundation's more than 300 active volunteers conduct research, lead tours, work in the gardens, welcome folks in the Visitors Center, help with our Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Halloween tours, and so much more. Our volunteers are at…
GAGives Day is Tuesday, November 30. Help us raise $6,000 for new wayfinding signage at historic Oakland Cemetery. One of the most enjoyable experiences one can have while visiting Oakland Cemetery’s 48 acres of Victorian gardens is wandering the historic…
Special events and volunteer manager Mary Fernandez recently interviewed Sunday in the Park 2021 headliner Jupiter Coyote. Check out the interview below. Sunday in the Park is September 26, 2021 at Oakland Cemetery. The Original Wailers are also headlining, and…
2021 is really flying by for Historic Oakland Foundation's preservation, restoration, and operations (PRO) team. This year we’ve been busier than ever thanks to ongoing work taking place on East Hill. In late 2019 we began restoring 7.5 acres on…
At their August 16, 2021 meeting the Atlanta City Council unanimously voted to approve the removal of the Lion of Atlanta statue from Oakland Cemetery as “necessary and appropriate for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of the monument.” The Lion…
Did you know that despite the beauty of its 48-acres, Oakland is not a perpetual care cemetery? It's not! Families and owners are responsible for maintaining their lots, but in the years since the last of Oakland’s lots were sold,…
On June 18, 1862, seven men from Ohio were hanged just steps south of Oakland Cemetery. The leader of these men had been executed earlier, and several more waited in jail. In the Confederate states, these men were decried as…