On Thursday I had one of my first London style after work drinks here in ATL. As the weather was lovely we headed directly to the pub from work and sat on the terrace from Six Feet Under right opposite of Oakland Cemetary (http://www.oaklandcemetery.com/index.html). It is one of Atlanta's historic cemeteries and very close to downtown. Oakland is a garden cemetery, founded in 1850. Many welknown Atlanta citizens are buried there among them Margaret Mitchell and Maynard Jackson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Jackson), Atlanta's first African American mayor. From a hilltop in Oakland Cemetery, General John B. Hood allegedly watched the Battle of Atlanta, and many sodiers from the Civil War are buried on Oakland cemetery.
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