Rosemary Cemetery
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sfwife
N 27° 20.607 W 082° 32.568
17R E 347387 N 3025420
Historical Marker in Sarasota County
Waymark Code: WM304K
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2008
Views: 26
Rosemary Cemetery is the burial place for many early Sarasota citizens, civic leaders and entrepreneurs including Scotsman John Hamilton Gillespie, first mayor and local manager for Florida Mortgage & Investment Co., British land developers of the municipality. The cemetery was set aside in plat, 'Town of Sarasota', filed on July 27, 1886 by the promoters for the ill-fated "Ormiston Colony" and was deeded to the incorporated city seventeen years later. Early families with members interred here include Abbe, Browning, Burns, Grantham, Cunliff, Halton, Higel, Pelot and Whitaker, among others. Owen Burns purchased the founding corporation holdings in 1910. His influence has been credited with guiding the "true flowering" of the city laid out by the Scots.
Marker Number: none
Date: none
County: Sarasota
Marker Type: City
Sponsored or placed by: Sarasota County Historical Commission
Website: [Web Link]
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