An altercation occurred at Oakland Cemetery between Atlanta Council member Liliana Bakhtiari and security guard Antony Montfort after park hours. Montfort, who lacked a flashlight, confronted a ...

ATLANTA - Historic Oakland Cemetery will be closed to the public for the entire month of January 2024. The closure aims to facilitate crucial paving and infrastructure projects, temporarily ...

Oakland Cemetery is not your typical tourist destination, but it is a must-see for those who want to explore Atlanta’s history. Get a glimpse into the city’s past with a stroll through the ...

Other dignitaries resting at Oakland Cemetery include Maynard Jackson, Atlanta’s first Black mayor, former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., and Bishop Wesley John Gaines, co-founder of Morris ...

ATLANTA — Oakland Cemetery serves as the final resting place for over 70,000 Georgians. The historic cemetery first opened its doors in 1850 when city officials purchased six acres of land for ...

Grant, the man for whom the nearby park is named, sold to Atlanta for its rapidly growing cemetery. A year later, Oakland’s caretaker, or sexton, approached the Atlanta City Council and asked to ...

“They had this greenhouse at the Atlanta History Center ... starting with why the cemetery even had a greenhouse. Oakland was one of the nation’s first rural-garden cemeteries.

ATLANTA — Police want to find the person who vandalized statues in southeast Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. Someone vandalized the Lion of Atlanta and the Confederate Obelisk early Sunday.

Admission begins each night at 7:30 p.m. and ends at 11 p.m. The post Illumine returns to Oakland Cemetery with installations by Atlanta artists appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta.

For Illumine, Historic Oakland Cemetery becomes a canvas ... artists participating in the event is Dorothy O’Connor, an Atlanta native who grew up visiting the cemetery. For Illumine, she ...