News
Top Stories 2010
- July 10
Danny Camacho - Minorities in Austin's History As In Life, So In Death
-- The segregation and discrimination of minority communities in Austin, Texas, as exemplified in their burials at the city's oldest cemetery, Oakwood.
- June 29
American-Statesman -
City's oversight of cemetery maintenance flawed
- June 22
The results of the
Cemetery
Contract Audit presented to the Audit and Finance Committee
- June 17
City hosts a "community forum" on Austin's cemeteries
- May 8
Spring Walking Tour - “Putting Their Mark on Austin--the people who built the places you love" Austin’s most recognizable places – Zilker, Bergstrom, Kerbey and many more
- April 10
Save Austin's Cemeteries welcomed Aditi Worcester, a Video Biographer, who led an interactive session on "How to Preserve your Family History through Video Biographies."
- March 6
"It's My Park Day" -- Clean-up effort at Plummers Cemetery and Givens Park on Springdale Road at 12th Street
- March 2
Grand Opening of Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum: 411 East Fifth Street Austin, Texas 78701
- February 10
Walking Tour: Austin's Founding Families
- January 14
KVUE News - City of Austin running out of places to bury dead*
- January 9
Save Austin’s Cemeteries welcomed Dr. David B. Gracy to kick off our 2010 speaker series.
The historian of the George Washington Littlefield Family, a Texas historian, and a former state archivist of Texas, Dr. Gracy presented the history
of the Littlefield plot in Oakwood Cemetery and the lives of those
buried in the plot as well as other Littlefield family members
buried in Oakwood.
