SITE DIRECTORY
To learn more about any of the BCN sites listed below, click “Read more” to view individual site briefs. To search for a specific BCN site, use the search bar below:
Good Hope Cemetery
GOOD HOPE CEMETERY
FOUNDED: 1828
ADDITONAL NAMES: N/A
AFFILIATION(S):
Coconut Grove Cemetery Association
HISTORY:
The Good Hope Cemetery is a segregated cemetery located in Dozier, Alabama. In 1997, there were at least 173 known black burials in Good Hope cemetery. Good Hope cemetery is located across the street from the church, of the same name, on County Hwy 63. The Coconut Grove Cemetery Association is continuing to learn about the history of this cemetery.
BCN Contact Information:
Beverly Johnson
COCONUT GROVE CEMETERY
COCONUT GROVE CEMETERY
FOUNDED: 1913
ADDITONAL NAMES: Charlotte Jane Memorial Park, Grove Bahamian Cemetery
AFFILIATION(S):
Coconut Grove Cemetery Association
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.
BCN Contact Information:
Coconut Grove Cemetery Association
bevy3435@gmail.com