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The Galilee Cemetery began to be used in the 1930s; the WPA Guide to Florida has this description in the section on Sarasota,
Page 269: The local Negro settlement, east of the railroad, has it shops, churches, recreation centers, and rows of shacks. The majority of inhabitants, 30 percent of the city's total population, are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and a few find employment as hostlers and roustabouts with the circus, returning to Sarasota in the fall to pick up odd jobs in canning factories, packing houses, and as gardeners.
After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred. In February of 2010, Dr. Baram assembled anthropology students from New College of Florida and State College of Florida to assist members of the Task Force in a project that will systematically record the location of as many graves as possible. This is the first step in a research effort that is expected to add several new chapters to our knowledge of Sarasota's black community.
The cemetery is situated along the busy U.S. 301 in between a Hertz Equipment Rental and a waste management plant. Weather conditions have led to the deterioration of the grave markers and vaults. The Woodlawn and Galilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force, a community group created by the City to maintain the cemetery, initiated the process of transitioning the burial ground into a historic site.
GALILEE CEMETERY
(On the east side of Washington Blvd , Sarasota, south of Myrtle St)
Given by William Van Dame to the black community. The first death date is 1932.
PVT US ARMY
The Galilee Cemetery began to be used in the 1930s; the WPA Guide to Florida has this description in the section on Sarasota,
Page 269: The local Negro settlement, east of the railroad, has it shops, churches, recreation centers, and rows of shacks. The majority of inhabitants, 30 percent of the city's total population, are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and a few find employment as hostlers and roustabouts with the circus, returning to Sarasota in the fall to pick up odd jobs in canning factories, packing houses, and as gardeners.
After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred. In February of 2010, Dr. Baram assembled anthropology students from New College of Florida and State College of Florida to assist members of the Task Force in a project that will systematically record the location of as many graves as possible. This is the first step in a research effort that is expected to add several new chapters to our knowledge of Sarasota's black community.
The cemetery is situated along the busy U.S. 301 in between a Hertz Equipment Rental and a waste management plant. Weather conditions have led to the deterioration of the grave markers and vaults. The Woodlawn and Galilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force, a community group created by the City to maintain the cemetery, initiated the process of transitioning the burial ground into a historic site.
GALILEE CEMETERY
(On the east side of Washington Blvd , Sarasota, south of Myrtle St)
Given by William Van Dame to the black community. The first death date is 1932.
FLORIDA
PVT US ARMY
The Galilee Cemetery began to be used in the 1930s; the WPA Guide to Florida has this description in the section on Sarasota,
Page 269: The local Negro settlement, east of the railroad, has it shops, churches, recreation centers, and rows of shacks. The majority of inhabitants, 30 percent of the city's total population, are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and a few find employment as hostlers and roustabouts with the circus, returning to Sarasota in the fall to pick up odd jobs in canning factories, packing houses, and as gardeners.
After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred. In February of 2010, Dr. Baram assembled anthropology students from New College of Florida and State College of Florida to assist members of the Task Force in a project that will systematically record the location of as many graves as possible. This is the first step in a research effort that is expected to add several new chapters to our knowledge of Sarasota's black community.
The cemetery is situated along the busy U.S. 301 in between a Hertz Equipment Rental and a waste management plant. Weather conditions have led to the deterioration of the grave markers and vaults. The Woodlawn and Galilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force, a community group created by the City to maintain the cemetery, initiated the process of transitioning the burial ground into a historic site.
GALILEE CEMETERY
(On the east side of Washington Blvd , Sarasota, south of Myrtle St)
Given by William Van Dame to the black community. The first death date is 1932.
PVT US ARMY
The Galilee Cemetery began to be used in the 1930s; the WPA Guide to Florida has this description in the section on Sarasota,
Page 269: The local Negro settlement, east of the railroad, has it shops, churches, recreation centers, and rows of shacks. The majority of inhabitants, 30 percent of the city's total population, are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and a few find employment as hostlers and roustabouts with the circus, returning to Sarasota in the fall to pick up odd jobs in canning factories, packing houses, and as gardeners.
After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred. In February of 2010, Dr. Baram assembled anthropology students from New College of Florida and State College of Florida to assist members of the Task Force in a project that will systematically record the location of as many graves as possible. This is the first step in a research effort that is expected to add several new chapters to our knowledge of Sarasota's black community.
The cemetery is situated along the busy U.S. 301 in between a Hertz Equipment Rental and a waste management plant. Weather conditions have led to the deterioration of the grave markers and vaults. The Woodlawn and Galilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force, a community group created by the City to maintain the cemetery, initiated the process of transitioning the burial ground into a historic site.
GALILEE CEMETERY
(On the east side of Washington Blvd , Sarasota, south of Myrtle St)
Given by William Van Dame to the black community. The first death date is 1932.
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