The photos below are examples of correct answers to the Rocks of Oakland Cemetery Photo Scavenger Hunt.
Email your photo answers by June 1 to ashares@oaklandcemetery.com along with your full name. You’ll be entered to win one of two pairs of tickets to our Capturing the Spirit of Oakland Halloween tours! Depending on your email provider, you may need to send them in two emails. That’s fine.
Bell Tower Ridge
1.
Sandstone on the Marsh mausoleum showing breakage
2.
Sandstone cap
Original Six Acres
3.
S.B. Oatman’s carver’s mark
4.
Marble headstone with raised “veins”
5.
A once-intricate carving that is now illegible due to the calcite in the marble interacting with acid from rainwater
East Hill
6.
Fossils in the limestone of Oakland’s only limestone mausoleum
7.
Oakland’s only granite angel
8.
Limestone element on Oakland’s 1908 Women’s Comfort Station
African American Burial Grounds
9.
An example of a concrete headstone
10.
The only pink marble headstone in Oakland’s historic African American Burial Grounds
Confederate Burial Grounds
11.
A historic marble headstone and it’s more modern replacement
12a.
An example of exfoliation and blistering on the Confederate obelisk
12b.
An example of mechanical damage on the granite Confederate obelisk