A cemetery may not be the first place that comes to mind as a destination for holiday fun, but Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery is known for its creative public events. It is hosting a two-day ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. For the first time in more than a century, members of the ...

Barbara Ware (left) from the Dallas Genealogy Society and Linda Finley from Daughters of the American Revolution (center) among others unveil the historic marker of Oakland Cemetery during a ...

ATLANTA - Historic Oakland Cemetery held its annual Sunday in the Park event featuring Tunes From the Tombs on Sept. 29. The community festival featured multiple live performances, numerous vendors ...

ATLANTA, May 14, 2025 /CSRwire/ - In 2023, Georgia-Pacific donated $75,000, along with various Georgia-Pacific building products such as ToughRock™ and DensGlass™ to Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery’s ...

ATLANTA — For the first time in 145 years, Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery is making space available for the public. They aren't full burial plots but rather, smaller spaces for cremated remains.

Near the southeast corner of Oakland Cemetery, under the shade of majestic native oak trees and surrounded by headstones dating to the 1800s, an unassuming, roughly 150-foot-long plot of land will ...

Every time I’ve visited Oakland Cemetery, I’ve been in costume. I realize that’s a weird flex, but stay with me. My first visit to the cemetery was during the Run Like Hell 5K race in 2023—what felt ...

ATLANTA — For the first time since the 1880’s, Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery is offering up final resting places for the general public. Following a survey of ideas, the Atlanta Urban Design ...

A cemetery tour is a great way to learn history, and Atlanta has plenty of hauntingly beautiful historic cemeteries that hold the secrets to the city’s past. Take a stroll through these these top ...