Share List by Jeff Blakley The Palms Cemetery Once the decision was made to establish a cemetery in Naranja, far away from Homestead but between Modello and Naranja, where fewer people lived, a new struggle broke out, similar to what … Continue reading →
Share List by Jeff Blakley From Miami to Homestead The founding of the Palms Cemetery, known by various names over the years and now called Caballero Rivero Palms Woodlawn, has never been fully told. A lot of misunderstanding and conjecture … Continue reading →
Share List by Jeff Blakley From Homestead to Naranja In Part I of this article, I presented the events leading up to the reservation of a plot of land for a graveyard in Homestead and showed its location. In this … Continue reading →
Share List by Jeff Blakley In January, 1903, construction started at the south side of the Miami River on what was then called the Cutler Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. The route was surveyed by John S. Frederick, … Continue reading →
