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[1] the land for the cemetery was donated by Paul Hunter, Sr., a local businessman, to accommodate the interment of black Americans in Pompano Beach. It is the final resting place of Esther Rolle (1920–1998), actress famous for the 1970s sitcom Good Times and her sister Estelle Evans (1906–1985), from the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Florida on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 20, 2018 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places website. [3]
This list of cemeteries in Florida includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
In 2019, Wooden found his mother in Lincoln Memorial Park in Miami, the neglected cemetery home to upwards of 30,000 Black Americans including lynching victims, veterans and even a few millionaires.
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The cemetery was reserved only for the family members of founder Ellis. In 1904, the cemetery's new owner, John O’Berry, formed the Sunnyside Cemetery Association. By the following year, Sunnyside Cemetery opened to the public. In 1984, Anderson-McQueen invested in a portion of St. Petersburg's Sunnyside Cemetery that stretches three blocks ...
Kelsey Phar, first owner of the cemetery; (died 1964) H.E.S. Reeves, founder of the Miami Times, the county's oldest Black-owned newspaper; (died 1970) Gwen Cherry, the first African-American woman to serve as a state legislator in Florida; (died 1979) Dana A. Dorsey, Miami's first Black millionaire; (died 1940)
In 1959, the cemetery (now becoming known as Colon) became the center of a scandal, when city workers dumped raw sewage onto the overgrown and abandoned northern section. The operator of the cemetery at that time, A. P. Boza, leased the property from the city, and had failed proper upkeep of the separated northern section. [4]
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