Woodlawn Cemetery (West Palm Beach, Florida)
in West Palm Beach, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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1301 S Dixie Hwy, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, USA Print route »
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Woodlawn Cemetery is located at 1301 South Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, Florida. It consists of three cemeteries: Woodlawn Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery, and Woodlawn Cemetery North.Henry Flagler created the cemetery on 17 acres of pineapple fields in 1904. "By 1904, there was 'no more attractive cemetery in Florida' than Woodlawn, most likely inspired in name and design by New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery that had also utilized a spacious Landscape Lawn." "As was his custom, Flagler spared no expense and the cemetery soon became a tourist attraction. The St. Augustine Tatler of January 1905 reported that socialites would spend the afternoon there admiring its rock roads and "rows of oleanders, Australian pines, and crotons." In 1914 the Woodlawn Cemetery Association deeded the cemetery to the City of West Palm Beach.The Cemetery holds 10,085 burials, from January 1905 through December 1994. It originally had an iron gateway, with the words "That Which Is So Universal As Death Must Be A Blessing” in bronze letters. With the widening of Dixie Highway in 1925 an acre was lost and the iron gate had to be removed. A year later it was replaced with the present cement archway, with the same words inscribed.
