Oaklawn Cemetery in Tampa, Florida - Find a Grave Cemetery

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Coordinates: 27.95401, -82.45727
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Oaklawn Cemetery is the first public cemetery in Tampa and according to the historical marker, described as the final resting place for "White and Slave, Rich and Poor". The cemetery opened in 1850. There is a monument dedicated to those who died in the 1853, 1858, 1867, 1871, and 1887 Yellow Fever Epidemics. Many of the poor, who died in the epidemics, were buried in mass graves. Among the prominent citizens buried in the cemetery are five signers of the state constitution, sea captains, mayors, judges, merchants, clergymen and Florida's 16th governor, Henry Laurens Mitchell, who served from 1893 to 1897. By the 21st century, the cemetery has approximately 1,700 graves. The cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 2017. Adjacent to the northwest is the Saint Louis Catholic Cemetery, which was originally a separate cemetery, but the most of the fence was removed between the two cemeteries in the 1950s. The City of Tampa, the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, and the Tampa Historical Society manage both cemeteries.