Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery is an 48-acre hilly area in the southeastern section of Atlanta which contains the city's oldest extant burial grounds. Among the approximately 70,000 interred at Oakland are: the unmarked graves of paupers, Confederate and Union soldiers, a Jewish ...

Oakland Cemetery

Civil War Heritage Trail

This cemetery contains the remains of

at least 15 Confederate veterans and

one Union veteran. Also buried here

is John C. McGehee, a prosperous

Madison County plantation owner and

staunch proponent of states' rights who

was a ...

Oakland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Jackson River Station

Around 1857, the Virginia Central Railroad completed the Jackson River Depot and was the terminus of the railroad for trains and travelers heading west. Travelers had to continue their travels by horseback or stagecoach. They often stayed in ...

Oakland Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

A Brief History

William Henry Haynes, Sr. donated land for the Oakland Church and cemetery in 1811 to trustees James M. Montague, John P. Haynes, David Williamson and William H. Haynes, Jr. But the deed was not recorded until 1859. The ...

Oakland Cemetery

Confederates at Rest

Battle of Trevilian Station

Here in Oakland Cemetery, beneath small, rectangular stone markers, rest as many as 60 Confederate dead from the Battle of Trevilian Station. Most of them were never identified.

Immediately inside the gate are the graves of ...

Oakland Cemetery

Oakland Cemetery

Established 1862

A Historic Cemetery Listed in

Indiana’s Cemetery and Burial Grounds

Registry of the Indiana Department of

Natural Resources

Installed 2007 Indiana Historical Bureau

and Town of Montezuma

Marker is on River Road (extension of North ...