Melbourne Cemetery

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Melbourne Cemetery
Melbourne Cemetery (Melbourne, Florida) entrance 001.jpg
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Melbourne Cemetery
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Melbourne, Florida
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 28°05′10.42″N80°36′34.90″W / 28.0862278°N 80.6096944°W / 28.0862278; -80.6096944
Owned byCity of Melbourne

The Melbourne Cemetery or City of Melbourne Cemetery is a cemetery in Melbourne, Florida, United States. It is located on Hibiscus Boulevard at the intersection with Lake Street. The cemetery includes graves of original settlers of Melbourne, to include Cornthwaite John Hector who founded the city. Although formally organized as a cemetery in 1891, native Americans purportedly used the site as a burial grounds for many years before. [1]

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Graves

Grave marker of C. J. Hector Gravemarker for Cornthwaite John Hector, Founder of Melbourne 001.jpg
Grave marker of C. J. Hector

Some of the graves include: [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. Melbourne: A Century of Memories (Melbourne, FL: National Printing, Inc., 1980), p. 11.

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