COCONUT GROVE CEMETERY

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Site Brief:

Founded: 1913

Location: Miami, FL

Additional name(s): Charlotte Jane Memorial Park, Grove Bahamian Cemetery

Affiliate group(s):

• Coconut Grove Cemetery Association

 

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History:

In 1913, the cemetery property was purchased by five families for the sum of $140.00. The families that purchased the property are Burrow, Higgs, Reddick, Ross and the E.W.F. Stirrup families. The Coconut Grove Cemetery was first used as a graveyard in the early 1900's when Miami's Bahamian immigrants moved their cemetery from another location.

The cemetery was created by the Coconut Grove Colored Cemetery Association and today it is managed by the Coconut Grove Cemetery Association, which includes the following families: Burrows, Higgs, Reddick, Ross and Stirrup. It adjoins the Charlotte Jane Memorial Cemetery, which was named in honor of the wife of E.W.F. Stirrup. Adding to the lore of the cemetery are the 12 anthropomorphic "head and shoulder stones," which can only be found here in Miami-Dade County.

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Resource links:

• https://www.miamiandbeaches.com/l/attractions/coconut-grove-cemetery/5553

• Grove Bahamian Cemetery in Coconut Grove, Florida - Find a Grave Cemetery

• The Historic Coconut Grove Cemetery Historical Marker (hmdb.org)

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BCN Contact Information:

Coconut Grove Cemetery Association

bevy3435@gmail.com