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Oakland Cemetery is the largest public park in Atlanta, GA. It’s also a stunning example of a rural Victorian garden. The cemetery is 48 acres of winding paths, large shade trees, flowers, and shrubs, and stunning architecture.
Executive director, David Moore says, “We estimate about 35 thousand people visit Oakland per year” He also says, “there’s a dramatic revitalization that occurring up and down memorial drive that will generate thousands of more people that will want to walk outside to enjoy the 48 acres of historical Atlanta park.” Even with that many people visiting Oakland, it’s still unknown to many Georgians. David says, “people still don’t understand that they can come in here and engage in the history that is here.” Many passersby see it has an historical site that is off limits to the average citizen.
Oakland is national historic site, as well as, an Atlanta public park. That means Oakland is free to the public and open 365 days per year. There are maps available at the visitor’s center for self-guided tours or there are paid tours with professional park guides. What will you find at Oakland? History, beautiful gardens and architecture. Oakland began as public burial ground in 1850. It was designed to be atheistically pleasing and evolved into a rural garden featuring many flowering perennials, trees and
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Many famous Georgians are buried here. Oakland is home to 27 mayors, six governors, five confederate generals, and many prominent people that helped shaped Georgia. There are also 3,000 unmarked Confederate graves and approximately 7,500 paupers, or people who could not afford to be interred on a private lot, buried in Potter’s Field without markers. David says, “the two most visited celebrity graves are Margert Mitchell and Bobby Jones.” Margaret Mitchell was the author of Gone With The Wind, and Robert T. (Bobby) Jones is a Southern golf

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