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Brooksville Cemetery
Brooksville Cemetery is a historic graveyard in Brooksville, Florida. It was acquired by the City of Brooksville in April 1887 and was known as Chocochattee Cemetery. Originally 5 acres, it is now 51.5 acres, and is located at 1275 Olmes Road near the junction of State Road 50 and 50A. The oldest marker is for Jane Hope who died at age 30 in 1845. She was the wife of settler William Hope. Settlers killed by Seminole Indians. The cemetery includes 5,000 burial sites and includes both Confederate and Union veterans from the Civil war, veterans from the Spanish–American War The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the ..., World Wars I and II veterans, Korean War veterans, Vietnam veterans and veterans from more recent conflicts.
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Brooksville, Florida
Brooksville is a city in and the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, Hernando County, Florida, in the United States. At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 7,719, up from 7,264 at the 2000 census. Brooksville is home to historic buildings and residences, including the homes of former Florida governor William Sherman Jennings and football player Jerome Brown. Brooksville, established in 1856 by the merger of the towns of Melendez and Pierceville, took its name to honor Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman from South Carolina, who caning of Charles Sumner, caned and seriously injured Charles Sumner, an abolitionist and United States senator from Massachusetts. History 19th century Fort DeSoto, established in 1840 to give protection to settlers from Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, was located at the northeastern edge of present-day Brooksville on Croom Road about one-half mile east of U.S. Route 41 in Florida, U.S ...
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State Road 50
The following highways are numbered 50: International * European route E50 Brazil * BR-050 Canada * Alberta Highway 50 * Manitoba Highway 50 * Newfoundland and Labrador Route 50 * Ontario Highway 50 (Also referred to as Peel Regional Road 50 and York Regional Road 24 and Simcoe County Road 50) * Quebec Autoroute 50 China * G50 Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway, G50 Expressway Czech Republic * I/50 Highway (Czech Republic), I/50 Highway; Czech: :cz:Silnice I/50, Silnice I/50 Finland * Ring III (Kt 50) Greece * Greek National Road 50, EO50 road India * , a National Highway between Pune and Nashik cities Ireland * M50 motorway (Ireland) Israel * Begin Expressway Highway 50 (Israel). A freeway in Jerusalem, Israel. Italy * Autostrada A50 Japan * Japan National Route 50 Jordan * Korea, South * Yeongdong Expressway * National Route 50 (South Korea), National Route 50 Malaysia * Malaysia Federal Route 50 New Zealand * New Zealand State Highway 50 Poland * Nationa ...
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Seminole Indian
The Seminole are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American people who developed in Florida in the 18th century. Today, they live in Oklahoma and Florida, and comprise three federally recognized tribes: the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, as well as independent groups. The Seminole people emerged in a process of ethnogenesis from various Native American groups who settled in Spanish Florida beginning in the early 1700s, most significantly northern Muscogee, Muscogee Creeks from what are now Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and Alabama. Old crafts and traditions were revived in both Florida and Oklahoma in the mid-20th century as the Seminole began seeking revenue from tourists traveling along the new interstate highway system. In the 1970s, Seminole tribes began to run small Bingo (U.S.), bingo games on their reservations to raise revenue. They won court challenges to initiate Native American g ...
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – August 13, 1898) was fought between Restoration (Spain), Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine (1889), USS ''Maine'' in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acquiring sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and establishing a protectorate over Cuba. It represented U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence and Philippine Revolution, with the latter later leading to the Philippine–American War. The Spanish–American War brought an end to almost four centuries of Spanish presence in the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific; the United States meanwhile not only became a major world power, but also gained several island possessions spanning the globe, which provoked rancorous debate over the wisdom of expansionism. The 19th century represented a clear decline for the Spanish Empire, while the United States went from a newly founded country to a rising power. In 1895, C ...
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Cemeteries In Florida
This list of cemeteries in Florida includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries. Alachua County * Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville Brevard County * Cape Canaveral National Cemetery, Mims * Houston Pioneer Cemetery, Eau Gallie * La Grange Church and Cemetery, Titusville * Melbourne Cemetery, MelbourneMelbourne Chamber of Commerce. ''Melbourne: A Century of Memories'' (Melbourne, FL: National Printing, Inc., 1980), p. 11. * Old St. Luke's Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Courteney * Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay * Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge * Brevard Memorial Park, Cocoa Broward County, Florida * Beth David Memorial Gardens, Hollywood * Deerfield Beach Memorial Cemetery, Deerfield Beach * Evergreen Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale * Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central, Fort L ...
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Buildings And Structures In Brooksville, Florida
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof, walls and windows, usually standing permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the concept, see ''Nonbuilding structure'' for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs – occupancy, primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical separation of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) from the ''outside'' (a place that may be harsh and harmful at times). buildings have been objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in sustainable planning and building pract ...
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Cemeteries Established In The 1880s
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many dead people are buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ) implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. The term ''graveyard'' is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. The intact or cremated remains of people may be interred in a grave, commonly referred to as burial, or in a tomb, an "above-ground grave" (resembling a sarcophagus), a mausoleum, a columbarium, a niche, or another edifice. In Western cultures, funeral ceremonies are often observed in cemeteries. These ceremonies or rites of passage differ according to cultural practices and religious beliefs. Modern cemeteries often include crematoria, and some grounds previously used for both continue as crematori ...
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