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Submitted: 2/5/14 • Approved: 1/11/15 • Last Updated: 8/11/18 • R30859-G0-S3
Earliest Tombstone dates 1842. Cemetery officially opened 1847. At least 16 mayors are buried her as well as some 1,000 Confederate veterans & soldiers. Fence and walls erected 1905, the same year it began to be officially called "Oakland", rather than "City Cemetery". Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1877.
Contributed on 2/5/14 by debbraszymanski
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Record #: 30859