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SAINT JOESEPH CEMETERY

Gulf County · dedicated 1963 · S.R. 384A., Port St. Joe

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This site is one of three cemeteries of Saint Joseph. Many persons interred here were victims of yellow fever which plagued the city throughout July and August, 1841, causing its depopulation and abandonment. The dread disease, sparing neither rich nor poor, was brought into port by sailing ship from the Greater Antilles. Here many prominent territorial Florida statesmen, journalists and merchants succumbed. No markers remain of those buried in trenches.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Florida Historical Marker Program, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

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