Cemetery a Day in May: Fort Drum Cemetery (Okeechobee County)

Cemetery Log Date: May 29, 2014

Discover one of Florida's ghost town cemeteries at  Fort Drum in Okeechobee County.

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 The cemetery covers 8 acres with 381 internments, ranging in dates from 1876 to current day.

Henry Parker (Image by LaMartin.com)

 Fort Drum was a Seminole War fort built in the 1840's and abandoned soon after. The first pioneers moved to the area about 1870.  Henry Parker was one of those pioneers and opened a store and trading post attached to the side of his log cabin home.  The nearby Seminole Indians were some of Parker's regular customers trading alligator, deer and otter hides for guns, ammunition and groceries. Parker, along with many other first pioneers, can be found in the Fort Drum Cemetery. 
  

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(Image by Jim Pike)

  
WHO: Owned and maintained by Okeechobee County

WHAT: Early pioneer cemetery

WHEN: Dawn til Dusk

WHERE: US 441 and NE 304th Street, Fort Drum, FL map

WHY:
  •  Many of Fort Drums first settlers were buried and remain here
  • Interesting Florida ghost town cemetery
  • Contains graves with dates ranging from 1876 to current day

For more information, look at:  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=329774,
http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/fl/fortdrum.html


Text by: Robbie Boggs


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