| Greenwood Cemetery | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 1880 |
| Location | Orlando, Florida |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 28°32′05″N81°21′26″W / 28.53472°N 81.35722°W |
| Owned by | City of Orlando |
| Find a Grave | Greenwood Cemetery |
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Orlando, Florida. [1]
In 1880, eight Orlando residents pulled together to buy 26 acres of land and form Orlando Cemetery. The name was changed to Greenwood Cemetery in 1915 at the request of two of its founders. The cemetery has expanded with land purchases over time and now has 86 acres of land. Sections of the cemetery are dedicated to Confederate veterans, Union veterans, Spanish-American veterans, World War I veterans and World War II veterans. [2] [3] [4]
Moonlight walking tours of the cemetery are popular in Orlando. These tours are led by a sexton and it offers a window into Orlando's history. [5] The west side of the cemetery contains the 19-acre park, Greenwood Urban Wetlands, which was established in 1991. [6]
A section of the cemetery contains unmarked plots for the victims of lynchings by whites, according to history professor Vibert White. [7] One such victim, July Perry, who was hung in 1920 after trying to vote in Ocoee, received a headstone in 2002. [8]
In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting of June 12, 2016, the City of Orlando offered plots for those killed. [9]
Orange County is a county located in Central Florida, and as of the 2020 census, its population was 1,429,908 making it Florida's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Orlando, the core of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.67 million in 2020.
Ocoee is a city in Orange County, Florida, United States. According to the 2019 US Census population estimate, the city had a population of 48,263. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Francis Wayles Eppes was a planter and slave owner from Virginia who became a cotton planter in the Florida Territory and later civic leader in Tallahassee and surrounding Leon County, Florida. After reaching legal age and marrying, Eppes operated the Poplar Forest plantation which his grandfather President Thomas Jefferson had established in Bedford County, Virginia, which he inherited. However, in 1829 he moved with his family to near Tallahassee, Florida. Long interested in education, in 1856 Eppes donated land and money to designate a school in Tallahassee as one of the first two state-supported seminaries, now known as Florida State University. He served as president of its board of trustees for eight years.
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Cassius Aurelius Boone was an American politician, who was the seventh Mayor of Orlando, Florida, from 1881 to 1882. He was also involved in the hardware and furniture business. He married Sarah Hughey on May 10, 1873. He died when he was 67 and he was interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando.
John Letcher Bryan was an American politician. He was the eighth Mayor of Orlando, Florida, from 1883 to 1885, when he resigned. He also served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando.
Braxton Beacham was the eighteenth Mayor of Orlando from 1906 to 1907. He was also an Orlando businessman and entrepreneur who owned the Beacham Movie Theatre and founded "Prosper Colony" which became Taft, Florida. He married Roberta Holland on June 16, 1887. He died at the age of 60 in 1924 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
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