Illumine 2024
This year's Illumine was enchanting ✨🌙🔮 Thank you to everyone who joined us April 18-21 & 25-28 to experience this mystical after-dark event! We hope to see you again next spring for Illumine 2025.
Visitor Center Construction Update: March 2024
HOF Executive Director Richard Harker and Director of Capital Projects Neale Nickels update us on the construction of Oakland Cemetery’s new Visitor Center. Learn more about this project | Buy a personalized brick
5 Reasons to Fall in Love with Oakland
There are so many reasons to love Oakland Cemetery. Nestled in the heart of Atlanta, Oakland is a community park, an eternal resting place, a beautiful garden, a venue, and so much more. We invite you to walk through the…
Historic Oakland Foundation Announces New Trustees
Historic Oakland Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of four directors to its board of trustees beginning January 1, 2024. “As Historic Oakland Foundation completes our first-ever capital campaign and is expanding its ability to deliver on its mission…
Visitor Center Construction Update: February 2024
HOF Executive Director Richard Harker and Director of Capital Projects Neale Nickels update us on the construction of Oakland Cemetery’s new Visitor Center. Learn more about this project | Buy a personalized brick
Free Tours of Oakland’s Historic African American Burials Grounds this February
Historic Oakland Foundation is excited to once again offer free tours of Oakland's historic African American Burial Grounds this February. From the inception of Atlanta’s municipal cemetery in 1850, the burial grounds for enslaved and free African  Americans were, by…
Applications for 2024 YLHT Workforce Development Program Now Open
HOF is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the second year of its Youth Landscape and Hardscape Team workforce development program. The Youth Landscape and Hardscape Team (YLHT) program is an eight-week program that provides steady, paid summer…
Oakland to Close in January for Paving and Infrastructure Project
Historic Oakland Foundation and the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation have announced that Oakland Cemetery will temporarily close to the public for the month of January 2024 so that paving and infrastructure projects may be completed. Historic…
You Make Our Work Possible
Your support this year allowed us to serve more than 125,000 visitors at Oakland Cemetery through our expanded educational programs, tours, special events, and the launch of our youth work skills development program. In the video below, HOF staff share…
Visitor Center Construction Update: December 2023
HOF Executive Director Richard Harker and Director of Capital Projects Neale Nickels update us on the construction of Oakland Cemetery's new Visitor Center. Learn more about this project | Buy a personalized brick