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Oakland Cemetery - Atlanta, GA
Potter’s Field at Oakland Cemetery:
The 5.7 acres at the east end comprise Potter's Field, the resting place of 7,500 of the 70,000 buried in the cemetery typically reserved for the indigent. At Oakland, lots were sold out by 1884; if one’s family did not own a lot by then, burial occurred here. This is Potter’s Field, where no differences of religion and race ever mattered. A single monument commemorates them all. Potter’s Field is a favorite spot for Frisbee and other games—faithful to the Victorian intention that cemeteries should be enjoyed by the living.
Oakland Cemetery - Atlanta, GA
Potter’s Field at Oakland Cemetery:
The 5.7 acres at the east end comprise Potter's Field, the resting place of 7,500 of the 70,000 buried in the cemetery typically reserved for the indigent. At Oakland, lots were sold out by 1884; if one’s family did not own a lot by then, burial occurred here. This is Potter’s Field, where no differences of religion and race ever mattered. A single monument commemorates them all. Potter’s Field is a favorite spot for Frisbee and other games—faithful to the Victorian intention that cemeteries should be enjoyed by the living.