WUWF Public Media This monument sits at Pensacola s Miraflores Park, where an unmarked, possibly African-American cemetery could be studied by a state new task force.
Florida’s new Task force on Abandoned African-American Cemeteries recently convened for its inaugural meeting. Coincidentally, the June discovery of human remains under a historic Pensacola building has led to a 137-year old map that once marked the spot of a nearby graveyard that could fall under the scope of the group’s work.
“There was a map, I think it was labeled 16
th street from 1884 and I thought well, this could be something,” said Adrianne Walker, interim archivist and staff archaeologist at the University of West Florida Historic Trust, recalling her search through Pensacola’s map index.