Austin 360
The sublime Oakwood Cemetery Chapel, designed by Charles Page in 1914 and rededicated after a major retooling in 2018, has been closed to the public since March 2020.
That has not stopped parks employees the Austin Parks and Recreation Department oversees the city s oldest cemetery, founded in 1839 and their collaborators from creating digital exhibits that tell essential stories and relate back to the graveyard and its past.
These story maps have dealt with a pioneer Black leader, the Rev. Jacob Fontaine; Austin s Tejano history and Mexican American burials; music and musicians interred at Oakwood; people who fought for Texas independence from Mexico; the Austin suffrage movement; and a broad look at grief, loss and love across cultures.