Oaklawn Cemetery
This hallowed ground set aside as a town
burial site in 1850 "for whites & slaves alike"
is the resting place for many of Tampa's founding fathers, mayors, and county officers.
A governor of Florida, two Supreme Court
Judges, framers of all five Florida Constitutions
1839-1885, and soldiers of seven wars. Second
Seminole War, Mexican War, Billy Bowlegs
Indian War, Civil War, Spanish-American War,
World War I and World War II, rest here.
Marker is at the intersection of North Morgan Street and East Fortune Street, on the right on North Morgan Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
