The Rosemary Cemetery is a historic

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Sarasota Sarasota () is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Tampa Bay area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Ba ...

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. The cemetery is located at the northwest corner of the original plat of the town of Sarasota.

History

The cemetery was acquired by the town of Sarasota in 1903. The cemetery is a significant indicator of the early settlement as it is the first public cemetery in Sarasota and the oldest extant man-made landscape feature in the city. On November 16, 2003, it was added to the

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after Uzi Baram, anthropology professor at New College of Florida and Susan Lynn White, Sarasota County Archaeologist, surveyed and documented the cemetery. The City of Sarasota updated signage for the cemetery, using Baram's suggestions as Director of the New College Public Archaeology Lab, in 2014

Notable burials

* Owen Burns, businessman and community leader * John Hamilton Gillespie, Sarasota's first mayor

References

External links

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Sarasota County listings
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National Register of Historic Places
* Rosemary Project: Sarasota's Living and Dead Histor

at New College of Florida faculty link for Uzi Bara

{{Sarasota, Florida National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida Buildings and structures in Sarasota, Florida Protected areas of Sarasota County, Florida Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida 1886 establishments in Florida Cemeteries established in the 1880s