Lot Restorations

Find out about ongoing lot restorations at Oak Hill Cemetery.

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Where is Your Special Spot?

Everyone has their own "special spot" at Oak Hill. Read more about Dana Dawson's and come find your own! photograph yourself in your favorite spot and send it to info@oakhillbirmingham.com, and we will feature your photo here.

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Louise C.Wooster

1842—1913
In 1873, Lou was a well-paid lady of the evening when a deadly cholera epidemic swept through Birmingham.
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Charles Linn

1814 – 1882
"I shall have my tomb built upon a high promontory above the town of Birmingham, in which you men profess to have so little faith, so that I may walk out on Judgment Day and view the greatest industrial city of the entire South."
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John T. Milner

1826—1898
As a railroad engineer, Milner determined where the South & North Alabama Railroad would cross the Alabama & Chattanooga Railroad and therefore the site of the future city of Birmingham.
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The Hawes Riots

1888
The jury, composed entirely of middle to upper class-white males aged 28 to 47 deliberated for fifty-five minutes and decided upon the death penalty on May 3, 1889.
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Dr. Grace Hughes Guin

1912—2002
By graduating in an otherwise all-male class at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1943, Grace Hughes Guin scored a victory for feminism.
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Where is Your Special Spot?

Everyone has their own "special spot" at Oak Hill. Read more about Dana Dawson's and come find your own! photograph yourself in your favorite spot and send it to info@oakhillbirmingham.com, and we will feature your photo here.

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