Oakwood Cemetery Heritage Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting public engagement with the Cemetery’s unique cultural, historic, architectural, and natural resources.
Your donation today would directly support the following programming:
Oakwood Cemetery Tours
Oakwood Cemetery Heritage Foundation offers popular tours including our Daredevil Tour, Tragic Tales Tour, Street Names Tour, and historical tours featuring European founders like the Porters, Schoellkopfs, C. B. Gaskill and others.
Oakwood Archiving Project
Established in 1852, Oakwood has an extensive collection of burial permits, records and maps. All materials are being categorized and archived for protection against future deterioration. Digitization is ongoing with the goal of making these records available to the public.
Historic Preservation
Oakwood Cemetery boasts historical structures including a family mausoleum (1910), a large Green and Wicks designed mausoleum building (1913), a stone gateway (1922), an office (1922), and a vault/crematory (1877/1956). Proper upkeep of these structures is important to the mission of the Oakwood Cemetery Heritage Foundation.