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Hours:Open year-round dawn to dusk. Guided walking tours are available seasonally.
Cost:Admission is free; tours are priced separately
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in Atlanta, GA 30312about Oakland Cemetery:
Oakland Cemetery is one of the most beautiful green spaces in Atlanta. With winding paths, large shade trees, flowers and shrubs, and appealing vistas, is was meant for the living as well as the departed, and the garden cemetery concept was a forerunner of public park development in America.
Who is Buried Here? Important Atlanta milestones are represented, from early builders, to Civil War soldiers, to leaders of industry, to Civil Rights pioneers. In June 2003, Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first African-American mayor, became the 25th mayor of the city to be buried at Oakland, joining six Georgia governors. Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, is buried here. So are golf great Robert T. (Bobby) Jones; Joel Hurt, one of the city's leading developers and entrepreneurs; Atlanta historian Franklin Garrett, Bishop Wesley John Gaines, founder of Morris Brown College; Carrie Steele Logan, 19th Century founder of Atlanta's first orphanage for black children which continues today as the Carrie Steel Pitts Home, and others who played a role in Atlanta's evolution.
The best known marker is the massive "Lion of Atlanta," marking an estimated 3,000 graves of unknown Confederate soldiers disinterred from the battlefield.
Best View From Knitter's Mill, see a spectacular view of the Atlanta skyline.
Who is Buried Here? Important Atlanta milestones are represented, from early builders, to Civil War soldiers, to leaders of industry, to Civil Rights pioneers. In June 2003, Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first African-American mayor, became the 25th mayor of the city to be buried at Oakland, joining six Georgia governors. Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With The Wind, is buried here. So are golf great Robert T. (Bobby) Jones; Joel Hurt, one of the city's leading developers and entrepreneurs; Atlanta historian Franklin Garrett, Bishop Wesley John Gaines, founder of Morris Brown College; Carrie Steele Logan, 19th Century founder of Atlanta's first orphanage for black children which continues today as the Carrie Steel Pitts Home, and others who played a role in Atlanta's evolution.
The best known marker is the massive "Lion of Atlanta," marking an estimated 3,000 graves of unknown Confederate soldiers disinterred from the battlefield.
Best View From Knitter's Mill, see a spectacular view of the Atlanta skyline.
tips:
Picnics are welcome, as are pets.
getting there:
I-75 & I-85 North & South, take Exit #247 to I-20 East. Take Exit #59A to Boulevard.
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