The History of Birmingham’s Oak Hill Cemetery

Thursday, October 20, at 6:30 p.m. in the Round Auditorium

Oak Hill Cemetery is Birmingham‘s oldest cemetery. Most of the 10,000 or so burials at Oak Hill were interred before 1930, including nine of the ten landholders who founded the city; many early mayors; a Revolutionary soldier; numerous American Civil War veterans; and the first male child born in the city. Although few records exist from the time, most believe the “Potter’s Field” section was also used as the final resting place for many victims of the 1873 cholera epidemic. Join us as Jim Langley discusses the cemetery’s fascinating history.