Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery

June 6, 1850	First land lot purchased in what will become Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery
	Oakland Cemetery
December 7, 1860	City council allocates first Jewish lots at City Cemetery (now Oakland Cemetery).
	Jewish Section, Oakland Cemetery.
	Oakland Cemetery
October 9, 1867	Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery makes its final purchase of land (total 88 acres).
	Oakland Cemetery
April 26, 1874	Oakland Cemetery dedicates a four-story granite structure commemorating "Our Confederate Dead"
	Oakland Cemetery
March 6, 1907	Logan E. Bleckley dies, Clarkesville, Georgia. He is interred at Oakland Cemetery
	Logan E. Bleckley
	Oakland Cemetery
August 16, 1949	Margaret Mitchell pronounced dead at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. She is later buried at Oakland Cemetery.
	Margaret Mitchell
	Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery

South of I-20 at Boulevard, Oakland Cemetery was the city's first public cemetery.

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