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Miami City Cemetery

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The Miami City Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries where the owners of the plot actually hold its deed. Approximately 1,000 open plots remain within the cemetery but there are strict criteria for burial. A decedent must be either the deedholder or able to prove familial relationship to the owner.
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Miami city cemetery was located one-half mile north of the city limits on a narrow wagon track county road. The first burial, not recorded, was of an elderly black man on July 14, 1897. The first recorded burial was a white man named Graham Branscomb, a 24-year-old Englishman who died on July 20,
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Blacks provided the primary labor force for building of Miami but were confined by clauses in land deeds to the north west section of Miami now known as
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1897, from consumption. The city of Miami cemetery is subdivided with whites on the east end and the blacks population on the west end.
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veterans, and miscellaneous veterans along the north and south fence lines. Among the 9,000 burials are pioneer families such as the
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In 1997 Enid Pinkney and Penny Lambeth began a restoration project of the cemetery. It has been a major transformation.
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and twenty-seven Union veterans are buried here. Other sections are dedicated to Catholics, American Legionnaires,
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Friends of the family are not allowed. Currently between ten to twenty burials occur every year.
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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News release May 5, 2009 Miami Dade County Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, District 3
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U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: City of Miami Cemetery
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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section. Two other prominent sections are the circles: the first to
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Miami City Cemetery is located in Miami
Miami City Cemetery is located in Florida
Miami City Cemetery is located in the United States
Miami
Florida
25°47′36″N 80°11′33″W / 25.79333°N 80.19250°W / 25.79333; -80.19250
MPS
Downtown Miami MRA
88002960
cemetery
Miami, Florida
National Register of Historic Places
Overtown
Jewish
Julia Tuttle
Daughters of the Confederacy
Confederate
Spanish–American War
Burdines
oolitic
Mary Abbott
Redmond B. Gautier Sr.
Julia Tuttle
John Sewell
John W. Watson
Gravesites and memorials
Jewish section
Confederate memorial

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