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In Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Ga., oaks and magnolias shade the resting place of Atlanta’s settlers and notable citizens. Among them is Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, whose tombstone bears her married name [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Marsh.
A popular stop is Beer Baron Corner where some of the city’s famous brewers – Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz and Uihlein – are buried. The largest monument is the Blatz Mausoleum with more than 500 tons of granite.
Bikers are drawn to the grave of William A. Davidson, who with his two brothers and William Harley, worked on motorcycles at the family home and ended up founding Harley-Dav
Designed by 19th-century landscape architects, Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Ill., is known as the “Cemetery of the Architects.”
Mausoleums of Beer Barons and Tomb of Harley Founder
The wooded, rolling hills of Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wis., cover 200 acres containing a waterfall, lake and the tombs of 85,000 people. The cemetery, which dates back to 1850, is on the National Register of Historic Places and contains a museum and visitor center where maps are available for self-guided tours.
Other notables buried here include Marshall Field, founder of Chicago’s iconic retail store and Chicago’s richest man in his day. His memorial features Mercury, the god of commerce, in a design by architect Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French who created the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Palmer, Chicago entrepreneur and owner of the Palmer House Hotel, and his wife Bertha, were known for their lavish lifestyle. Their tomb is a Greek temple with two sarcophagi.
Cemetery of Architects and Grave of Al Capone
From a hill in the cemetery, located a mile from downtown Atlanta, Gen. John B. Hood watched the Battle of Atlanta. Five Confederate generals have their final resting place at Oakland. The Lion of Atlanta memorial is a copy of a statue in Lucerne, Switzerland, and honors 3,000 Confederate soldiers buried here.
Visitors often leave golf balls, gloves or their PGA cards on the grave of legendary golfer Bobby Jones. Twenty-six mayors are buried here [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including Atlanta’s first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Pharmacy owner Joseph Jacobs is notable because the first Coca-Cola ever formulated was served in his drug store.
Louis Sullivan, who designed three tombs in this cemetery, is buried beneath a simple rough-hewn monument. John Root’s tomb in a Celtic cross with design based on his drawings. The final resting place of Daniel Burnham [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who was responsible for the 1983 Columbian Exposition and the preservation of the city’s magnificent lakefront, is on an island in the cemetery’s lake. A sleek black granite marker denotes the grave of “less is more” architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
If you want to visit the grave of Chicago’s notorious gangster, though, you’ll have to travel west to suburban Hillside, Ill. Capone is buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery beneath a simple headstone where coins and flowers often are left by visitors.
Goblins, ghosts and ghouls occupy thoughts, store shelves and lawn decorations around the end of October, but a tour of a historic cemetery can be a fascinating outing at any time of the year.
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Other notables buried at Graceland include Cyrus McCormick, George Pullman and Phillip Armour. Visitors can take a self-guided tour or join one of the tours of the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
Free admission; fee for guided tour.
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