North Woodlawn Cemetery | |
Location | 1936 NW 9th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 |
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Coordinates | 26°02′18″N 80°08′50″W / 26.0384182°N 80.1472653°W |
NRHP reference No. | 100001861 |
Added to NRHP | 29 November 2017 [1] |
North Woodlawn Cemetery, an African-American cemetery located east of Interstate 95 near Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 29 November 2017. [1] [3] [4] Founded in the 1920s, lynch victim Reuben Stacey was buried there in 1935. [5] [6] An area that may have been unmarked graves was built over in the construction of Interstate 95 in the 1970s. [7] [8] Another section of unmarked graves of infants may have been paved over in 1995. [9] Burials no longer take place there. Maintained by the City of Fort Lauderdale, it was restored in 2002. [9] [10]
North Woodlawn Cemetery | |
Location | 1936 NW 9th St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 |
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Coordinates | 26°02′18″N 80°08′50″W / 26.0384182°N 80.1472653°W |
NRHP reference No. | 100001861 |
Added to NRHP | 29 November 2017 [1] |
North Woodlawn Cemetery, an African-American cemetery located east of Interstate 95 near Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 29 November 2017. [1] [3] [4] Founded in the 1920s, lynch victim Reuben Stacey was buried there in 1935. [5] [6] An area that may have been unmarked graves was built over in the construction of Interstate 95 in the 1970s. [7] [8] Another section of unmarked graves of infants may have been paved over in 1995. [9] Burials no longer take place there. Maintained by the City of Fort Lauderdale, it was restored in 2002. [9] [10]