Oaklawn Cemetery

Oaklawn Cemetery
Entrance to Oaklawn Cemetery

Oaklawn Cemetery was Tampa, Florida's first public burial ground. The location was deeded in the mid-19th century. It was named as the final resting place for "White and Slave, Rich and Poor". The First Mayor of the City of Tampa Judge Joseph B. Lancaster is buried at Oaklawn along with pirates, slaves, other mayors, yellow-fever epidemic victims and confederate soldiers. It is located at the intersection of Morgan Street and Harrison Street in downtown Tampa, about two blocks South of US I-275.

The cemetery has approximately 1700 graves.

Image gallery

  • USS Sagamore Marker

  • Vicente Martinez-Ybor, founder of Ybor City

  • Captain Black, Died at Sea

  • John P. Wall, 15th Mayor of Tampa

  • 102 Unknown Monument

  • Darwin Branch Givens Grave

  • Joseph Lancaster, First Mayor of Tampa

  • Kennedy Monument

  • Coller Marker, Tampa's First Settlers

  • John McCormick, Tampa PD's first officer killed in the line of duty

  • Confederate Unknown Soldier

  • Pirate Grave

  • Lesley Family Slave Grave, No name listed

  • Yellow Fever Monument

  • Sgt John Miller, WWII

  • Master and Servant grave

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