Oakdale Cemetery (Hendersonville, North Carolina)

Oakdale Cemetery is a historic city cemetery and national historic district located at Hendersonville, Henderson County, North Carolina.

It includes a section for Agudas Israel Synagogue - Hendersonville's sole Jewish congregation.

Historic contributing resources include the cemetery, a frame, octagonal pavilion dating from the turn of the 20th century; a 20th-century, rectangular brick mausoleum with a flat roof and terra cotta coping; a large Neoclassical concrete mausoleum, built in 1951; and a 1950s maintenance building.

It includes the Italian marble angel statue which served as the inspiration for Thomas Wolfe's first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929).

[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.