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Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery - An Illustrated History and Guide (Paperback)
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Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery - An Illustrated History and Guide (Paperback)
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In "Atlanta and Environs," historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that
Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past
and the present." Within its forty-eight acres are more than
seventy thousand personal stories--of settlers and immigrants who
forged a city from a rowdy railroad camp, former slaves who carved
out lives in a segregated world, soldiers in blue and gray who were
cut down in a brutal civil war, and civic and business visionaries
who rebuilt the Phoenix City from the ashes of war and carried it
to prominence on the international stage.
Today, Atlanta's oldest public cemetery remains a must-see
destination for anyone interested in the city's colorful story.
Past the grieving mien of the Lion of Atlanta, which guards nearly
three thousand unknown Confederate soldiers, visitors can pay
respect to those who made Atlanta history--former slave Carrie
Steele Logan, who founded the first orphanage for African American
children; Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was
first served as a fountain drink; Morris and Emanuel Rich, founders
of the storied Rich's Department Stores; golfing Grand Slam legend
Bobby Jones; "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitchell; Maynard
Jackson, the city's first African American mayor, and many others.
Aside from its importance as a historic site, Oakland is among the
nation's finest examples of a rural garden cemetery, characteristic
of the nineteenth-century movement to transform stark burial
grounds into pastoral landscapes for both the repose of the dead
and the enjoyment of the living.
With Ren and Helen Davis's engaging narrative, rich photography,
archival images, and detailed maps, "Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery" is
a versatile guide for touring the cemetery's landscape of
remembrance, as well as a unique way to explore Atlanta's history.
A Friends Fund Publication. Published in association with the
Historic Oakland Foundation.
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