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April 28, 1976. Oakland Cemetery is one of the largest cemetery green spaces in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded as Atlanta Cemetery in 1850 on six acres (2.4 hectares) of land southeast of the city, it was renamed in 1872 to reflect the large number of oak and magnolia trees growing in the area. By that time, the city had grown and the cemetery ...
John M. Slaton. John Marshall Slaton (December 25, 1866 – January 11, 1955) served two non-consecutive terms as the 60th Governor of Georgia. His political career was ended in 1915 after he commuted the death sentence of Atlanta factory boss Leo Frank, who had been convicted for the murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan.
Westview Cemetery. Westview Cemetery, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest civilian cemetery in the Southeastern United States, comprising more than 582 acres (2.36 km 2 ), 50 percent of which is undeveloped. The cemetery includes the graves of more than 125,000 people and was added to the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 2019 and ...
The Atlanta Rolling Mill (later the "Confederate" Rolling Mill) was built in 1858 near Oakland Cemetery. It soon became the South's second-most productive rolling mill . During the American Civil War it rolled out cannon, iron rail, and 2-inch-thick (51 mm) sheets of iron to clad the CSS Virginia for the Confederate navy .
South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American -founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country. [3]
Benjamin Franklin White. Ammi Williams. Henry Lumpkin Wilson. Christopher C. Wimbish. William Ambrose Wright. Lollie Belle Wylie. Categories: Cemeteries in Atlanta. Burials in Georgia (U.S. state)
Oakland Cemetery may refer to: Oakland Cemetery (Camden, Arkansas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oakland Cemetery, Confederate Section, Camden, Arkansas, listed on the NRHP. Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery, listed on the NRHP in Arkansas. Oakland Cemetery (Atlanta), Georgia, listed on the NRHP.
Benjamin Bomar. Benjamin Franklin Bomar (August 9, 1816 – February 1, 1868) was the second mayor of Atlanta, Georgia . Bomar was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to Reverend Thomas Bomar and Elizabeth Carlton High and studied medicine in Charleston. He practiced medicine in America's first gold rush town of Dahlonega, Georgia, for a ...