The Oakland Cemetary in Atlanta
We went on a cemetery tour of the oldest cemetery in Atlanta. All the cemeteries around my house have flat tombstones and when you look at them they just look like one giant lawn. I enjoy walking through a cemetery and looking at the headstones and reading about the people buried there. This was a Victorian Garden Cemetery and it was setup so that as a family you would buy your plot and then you would keep it up thereafter. There are plantings all around and back in the day families would come and visit for the day - with children, picnic and all. The boys and I enjoyed the tour and then we sat and had lunch, our own picnic, and Aaron played the guitar for us. Very nice afternoon.
The entrance gate.
This is an example of a headstone and you can see the gardens all throughout in the background.
This headstone was one of the oldest in the cemetery. The engravings were worn on it and you couldn't read it anymore.
Many sites were like this with plantings over them.
another example of the garden-like setting.
This headstone is a tree stump - which signifies a life cut short. There were many of those in the cemetery.
This area was where the Confederate soldiers were buried. There were also some Union soldiers buried here.
A beautiful marker.
Bobby Jones - the famous golfer...
The Jewish quarter. The headstones here were side-by-side with no space. Because the temple purchased a whole section of the cemetery and when you died they put you down in the row right next to the last one buried. They wasted no space here.
Another headstone.
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