Google; Galilee Cemetery Sarasota, for info regarding a project by New College students and this cemetery.

BURIALS ENDED HERE IN 2011, DUE TO FINDING BURIALS ON TOP OF PREVIOUS INTERMENTS... TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERY WITH MAJORITY OF MONUMENTS CONSISTING OF EXPOSED VAULT LIDS WITH PLAQUES.

Galilee Cemetery, just south of Myrtle street off Tamiami Trail, was set aside in 1932.

The Galilee Cemetery is located on Washington Blvd between Myrtle and Martin Luther King Dr. The Galilee Cemetery, along with the older Oaklands/Woodlawn Cemetery on 10th Way was deeded to the "colored people of Sarasota" during the segregation era. The first burial in Galilee is dated 1935.

April 17, 1914 date when the Newtown'ss initial 96 lots were platted on North Orange Avenue between 21st and 24th Streets heading east towards U.S. 301, in what was then Manatee County.

William Van Dame donated the land and supervised the building of the cemetery as well as donating land for a ball park and playground for the use of the "colored people" of Newtown.

After many years of neglect, the Galilee Cemetery Task Force organized a clean-up campaign, created a more appealing entrance and recruited New College of Florida Professor Dr. Uzi Baram to document the lives of the interred. In February of 2010, Dr. Baram assembled anthropology students from New College of Florida and State College of Florida to assist members of the Task Force in a project that will systematically record the location of as many graves as possible. This is the first step in a research effort that is expected to add several new chapters to our knowledge of Sarasota's black community.

The cemetery is situated along the busy U.S. 301 in between a Hertz Equipment Rental and a waste management plant. Weather conditions have led to the deterioration of the grave markers and vaults. The Woodlawn and Galilee Cemetery Restoration Task Force, a community group created by the City to maintain the cemetery, initiated the process of transitioning the burial ground into a historic site.