Historic Riverside Cemetery Conservancy
Notables of North Gate
at Historic Riverside Cemetery - where history lives

Brand new guided walking tour February 14 and 15 at 4:00 P.M.

 

Friday and Saturday, February 14 and 15 at 4:00 P.M.   

  

The non-profit Riverside Cemetery Conservancy will unveil a brand new guided walking tour, Feb. 14-15, from 4-5:30pm. Entitled North Gate Notables, the tour highlights interesting people interred in the section of Riverside Cemetery located across I-75 close to Ingleside Avenue.   

 

 Stroll through our beautiful, historic North Gate section to learn about many of the fascinating people buried there. A few of these notables are William Fickling, Father of the Cherry Blossom Festival; Hazel Jane Raines, Georgia's First Lady of Flight; Twiggs Lyndon, Road manager for the Allman Brothers Band; Andreas and Margaret Anne Thornton Gruentzig, cardiologists who developed angioplasty.  

 

One and one-half hour guided walking tour. $5/person.  (no advance sales) 

Park at Acme Paint, 1979 Riverside Drive or at Hutchings Career Center, 2011 Riverside Drive. 

 

 

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We Need YOUR Help..
 Volunteers needed for this year's lineup of events

Our wonderful volunteers are essential to the success of our mission as a non-profit - to preserve, to enhance and to share the beauty and history of Riverside Cemetery for the benefit of present and future generations. Our volunteers are the driving force in all that the Conservancy does.

If you enjoy history and the intangible benefit that comes from helping to preserve one of our community's most treasured landmarks, then, one  of the areas below might be perfect for you!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
  • Tour guides and actors for guided tours
  • Behind-the-Scenes volunteers (box office, gift shop, set out luminaries, distribute posters to market events, parking guides)
  • each volunteer gets a free admission to a tour

Events with volunteer opportunities:

  • Notables in North Gate February 14-15
  • Spring Spirit Stroll March 20-29
  • Full Moon Euphoria May 4
  • Memorial Day Observance May 17
  • Down by the Riverside Music TBA
  • Spirits in October October 22-25, 29-Nov.1
  • Wreaths Across America December 12
Contact Suzanne Doonan at suzanne.doonan@riversidecemetery.com if you are interested in volunteering in ANY WAY!