Save Austin's Cemeteries

                       P O Box 16411, Austin, Texas 78761

Our Organization

Save Austin’s Cemeteries (SAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving historic cemeteries in Austin through documentation and education, and to promote historic cemeteries of Austin as local and state cultural resources. Members and volunteers donate their time and talents to better document the condition and inventory at cemeteries and to provide education and awareness.

Goals:
Develop Cemetery Master Plan
Identify Key Preservation Issues
Build Community Support through Education and Membership

Current Projects:
Site Analysis of each City Cemetery for Master Plan Development
Restoration of the Oakwood Chapel Building
Walking Tour Programs
Oakwood Headstone Documentation

City Cemeteries of Austin
Oakwood (established 1839)
Oakwood Annex (established 1914)
Evergreen/Highland (established 1926)
Austin Memorial Park (acquired 1941)
Plummers (acquired 1957)

City of Austin Cemeteries Presentation** 10 MB download

 

Events - Members & Guests Welcome

All events held at Oakwood Cemetery, located at 1601 Navasota Street in Austin, unless otherwise indicated.

February 20, 2010 -- Walking Tour: Austin's Founding Families: May they forever rest in peace in the shadow of the city they built. In recognition of Texas Statehood Day, we will connect with Austin history by telling the stories of people who lived in Austin during the days of the Republic before Statehood in 1846. Family stories will include Haynie, Ziller, Dietrich, Swisher and Wahrenberger.
Tours between 10 am to 4 pm starting approx every 1/2 hour, last tour at 4 pm

Oakwood Cemetery Documenting Days
Come on out to Oakwood Cemetery for a couple hours of fresh air and volunteer work. Headstone photo-documentation is scheduled for the first Saturday of every month. Bring your digital cameras to record headstones, along with your USB cords. If you don't have a digital camera, come along anyway and we'll pair you up with a camera-toting volunteer. At the end of the session, we'll download your digital pictures onto an SAC laptop to be archived. For more information, contact us at (512) 917-1666 or President@sachome.org

Upcoming Documenting Days
February 6, 2010 -- 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
March 6, 2010 -- No session today - Instead, please join SAC for an Austin Parks Foundation clean-up afternoon at Plummers Cemetery. Documenting to resume in April. See details below.
April 3, 2010 -- 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm

March 6, 2010 -- 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Save Austin's Cemeteries is partnering with the Austin Parks Foundation for its "It's My Park Day" volunteer day. SAC is organizing a clean-up effort at Plummers Cemetery and Givens Park on Springdale Road at 12th Street. This clean-up effort will consist mainly of picking trash and debris, gathering fallen branches, and clearing vegetation. For more information, see the Austin Parks Foundation website or register for volunteering at Plummers Cemetery

April 10, 2010, 10 am -- Quarterly Meeting
Guest Speaker: Aditi Worcester, a Video Biographer, who will lead an interactive session on "How to Preserve your Family History through Video Biographies." Video biographies help families to preserve the stories and memories of the important people in their lives by interviewing them on video, creating a valuable legacy for future generations.