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	Rosemary Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Sarasota, Florida
Coordinates	27°20′42″N 82°32′37″W / 27.34500°N 82.54361°W
Built	1886
NRHP reference No.	03001143
Added to NRHP	November 16, 2003

The Rosemary Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Sarasota, Florida. The cemetery is located at the northwest corner of the original plat of the town of Sarasota.^[2]

History

The cemetery was acquired by the town of Sarasota in 1903. The cemetery is a significant indicator of the early settlement as it is the first public cemetery in Sarasota and the oldest extant man-made landscape feature in the city.^[1]

On November 16, 2003, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Notable burials

Owen Burns, businessman and community leader
John Hamilton Gillespie,^[3] Sarasota's first mayor

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "Rosemary Cemetery". Sarasota History Alive. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
^ "John Hamilton Gillespie". Sarasota History Alive!. Retrieved May 10, 2021.

External links

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[ksa-2] "Rosemary Cemetery". Sarasota History Alive. Retrieved June 25, 2018.

[:0-3] "John Hamilton Gillespie". Sarasota History Alive!. Retrieved May 10, 2021.

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