Cemetery sights in Miami
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Miami City Cemetery
Fast fact: the first person buried in Miami was black. Depressing addendum: the first recorded burial in Miami was of a white guy. The long narrative of this troubled, diverse city is in its bones, and dem bones are concentrated in this eerie, quiet graveyard. The dichotomy of history and modernity gets a nice visual representation in the form of looming condos shadowing the last abode of the Magic City’s late, great ones. More than 9000 graves are divided into separate white, black and Jewish sections. Buried here are mayors, veterans (including about 90 Confederate soldiers) and the godmother of South Florida, Julia Tuttle herself.
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