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In 1874, Congregation B'nai Israel purchased a 5 acre site at Oakland Cemetery. The congregation purchased more land in 1902 and 1926, expanding the cemetery to 9.5 acres. In 2010, Oakland Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Data provided courtesy of Lynn Franklin and Bob Sweeney's "Southern Jewish Databases and Cemetery Listings" Please see their site for headstone photos, additional cemetery information and other southern Jewish databases at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ssjdb/ and choose the appropriate cemetery.
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