In West Palm Beach, 69 white victims were placed in a mass grave in Woodlawn cemetery and approximately 674 black victims were buried in this mass grave in the City's pauper's burial field at Tamarind Avenue and 25th Street. Many others were never found. On September 30, 1928, the City proclaimed an hour of mourning for the victims with memorial rites conducted simultaneously at each of the burial sites.
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- The Hurricane of 1928 African-American Mass Burial Site (also known as Pauper's Cemetery) is a pauper's cemetery and mass grave in West Palm Beach, Florida.
- The City of West Palm Beach purchased the land in 2000, and in 2003, a state historical marker was put in place by the city for the 75th anniversary of the storm.
- While the Okeechobee Hurricane impacted all in Palm Beach County, the vast majority of the deaths from the storm came in the Bahamian and African American...
- This is the burial site of the unidentified African Americans who perished during the hurricane of 1928 in West Palm Beach.
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- On the night of September 16, 1928, a hurricane swung up from Puerto Rico and collided, quite unexpectedly, with Palm Beach.
- A historic marker at the Hurricane of 1928 mass burial site at the corner of Tamarind Avenue and 25th Street in West Palm Beach, February 8, 2018...
- On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee.
