North Woodlawn Cemetery, an African-American cemetery located east of
Interstate 95
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from U.S. Route 1, US Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Miami, Florida, to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between M ...
near Sunrise Boulevard in
Fort Lauderdale
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, Florida.
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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on 29 November 2017.
Founded in the 1920s, lynch victim
Reuben Stacey
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Variants include Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portuguese ...
was buried there in 1935.
[ An area that may have been unmarked graves was built over in the construction of ]Interstate 95
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from U.S. Route 1, US Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Miami, Florida, to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between M ...
in the 1970s.
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Cemeteries in Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Broward County, Florida
African-American history of Florida
African-American cemeteries in Florida
1920s establishments in Florida
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