Historic Oakland Cemetery the Confederate Memorial statue was built in 1874 & for a long time was the highest point in Atlanta. The cemetery itself was built in 1850 with the purpose that in those days cemetery's were to be enjoyed by the living, I think they succeeded in that. It was originally 6 acres but grew to 42 with the civil war, there are still 3,000 unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers. It is a great place to spend a fall day walking around, its kinda weird to walk through the different sections & think that it was farm land. The Potter section which was for the poor & people who had no family to pay for a plot was bought from a farmer named Mr. Grant, which is who Grant park is named after.
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we used to go down and eat lunch there kinda awesome people thought we were nuts
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