CEMETERIES

NOTE: This page gives history & other info for some of Jacksonville's cemeteries.  For lists of people buried in a few local cemeteries, see Family History

• LIST OF DUVAL'S CEMETERIES -- Florida Times-Union article from May 28, 1997, entitled "Graveyards in Disrepair: Older, Abandoned Sites Are Forgotten, Neglected," by Mary Maraghy.  Gives a list of all of Duval County's known cemeteries.  Also tells about some of the problems of preserving old cemeteries.

• MAPPING DUVAL'S CEMETERIES -- Florida Times-Union article from March, 2001, entitled "Mapping the Past: City's 120-Plus Burial Grounds Being Documented," by Simon Barker-Benfield.   Tells about the City of Jacksonville's efforts to map all of the cemeteries in Duval County. 

• TOURS OF LOCAL CEMETERIES -- Description of the popular Pilot Club tours of local Jacksonville cemeteries.  Webpage from the Pilot Club.

• PRESERVING CEMETERIES -- Info about the Florida Task Force on Neglected & Abandoned Cemeteries.  Furnished by the State of Florida.

• EVERGREEN CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "It's More than a Cemetery : Evergreen also Becoming an Arboretum," by John Carter.

• EVERGREEN CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Past Lives Revisited : Third-graders Learn History by Seeing It," by Sandy Strickland.  Tells about a visit to Evergreen & Old City cemeteries.

• EVERGREEN CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Cemetery tours focus on history."  Tells about tour of historic Evergreen Cemetery.

• MANDARIN CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Mandarin Cemetery grave vandalized," by Dan Scanlan.  Tells about Mandarin Cemetery.

• MANDARIN CEMETERY -- EDWARD PLUMMER -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Long-lost Grave May Be in Mandarin Yard ," by Dana Treen.  Tells about the possible pinpointing of Confederate Sgt. Edward Plummer's resting place in Jacksonville.

• OLD CITY CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article entitled "Past Lives Revisited : Third-graders Learn History by Seeing It," by Sandy Strickland.  Tells about a visit to Evergreen & Old City cemeteries.

• SOUTHSIDE CEMETERY-- CRAIG SWAMP CEMETERY -- Florida Times-Union article called "Grant Would Save History," by Dan Scanlan.  Tells about efforts to save the Craig Swamp Cemetery and the former Philips Congregational Church.  Both landmarks are located in the Southside.  

• YUKON CEMETERY -- First Coast news item about the African American cemetery in the neighborhood of Yukon.

• YUKON CEMETERY -- Another First Coast News item about the African American cemetery in Yukon.