Hillsborough County Historical Cemetery in Tampa, Florida

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Get directions 5902 N 22nd Street
Tampa, Florida 33610 United States

Coordinates: 28.00083, -82.43460
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About these numbers These percentages indicate the number of Find a Grave memorials that have a grave photo or GPS coordinates. We don't know the total number of burials in a cemetery, so we cannot calculate a percentage of those with memorials, photos or GPS coordinates.

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16 open photo requests.

By law, all Florida counties must provide for those who otherwise can not afford a place to live, a hospital for when they are sick, and/or a burial place in which they may be buried. Hillsborough County purchased a 120-acre farm in 1905 to be developed for this purpose. In 1906 a one-acre plot of this ground was reserved for use as the pauper's burial cemetery, or "Potter's Field".

All graves were marked with a stone marker inscribed only with a number. Due to a fire, there are no present records of the grave site plot plans. The only list that survives contains names and death dates but not where in the cemetery/at what plot the deceased was interred.

It is impossible to identify a specific grave as that of any specific person. There is no way to fulfill a grave photo request unless the requestor knows the grave plot number by some other means (family Bible record, personal letter, etc.).