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Saint Matthew Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Also known as Clearwater Heights Cemetery

Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida, USA

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  • Get directions 100 S Missouri Avenue
    Clearwater, Florida 33756 United States
    Coordinates: 27.96373, -82.78875
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Archaeologists have detected 70 graves underneath the parking lot where a cemetery once stood in what was Clearwater Heights, an African American community . The discovery marks the fourth time in the last year that graves from a lost Tampa Bay area cemetery have been detected by investigators using GPR.
The site was previously where the St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church established its cemetery in 1909 for colored residents. When the cemetery site was sold in 1955 to a group who owned Parklawn Memorial Cemetery for African Americans in Dunedin., most of the graves were moved to another cemetery in nearby Dunedin.
But an unknown number of bodies were left behind because many graves were unmarked.
The black neighborhood of Clearwater Heights was first established in the early 1900s. The neighborhood's former bounds stretched between Cleveland Street, Court Street, Missouri Avenue, and Ewing Avenue.
The cemetery is locarated near South Missouri and Pierce Avenues in Clearwater .
Archaeologists have detected 70 graves underneath the parking lot where a cemetery once stood in what was Clearwater Heights, an African American community . The discovery marks the fourth time in the last year that graves from a lost Tampa Bay area cemetery have been detected by investigators using GPR.
The site was previously where the St. Matthew Missionary Baptist Church established its cemetery in 1909 for colored residents. When the cemetery site was sold in 1955 to a group who owned Parklawn Memorial Cemetery for African Americans in Dunedin., most of the graves were moved to another cemetery in nearby Dunedin.
But an unknown number of bodies were left behind because many graves were unmarked.
The black neighborhood of Clearwater Heights was first established in the early 1900s. The neighborhood's former bounds stretched between Cleveland Street, Court Street, Missouri Avenue, and Ewing Avenue.
The cemetery is locarated near South Missouri and Pierce Avenues in Clearwater .

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  • Added: 19 Jun 2020
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2708572