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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 9, 2010
Caption: Ft. Brooke, Mass Grave Marker, shares location with Tampa Native Americans marker
Additional Description: Ft. Brooke, Mass Grave. There are two mass graves at Oaklawn Cemetery. Both are in the Northeast Section. One, adjacent to the Sexton Cottage, contains the remains of 102 settlers and soldiers that were originally interred at Ft. Brooke, the U.S Army fort near the mouth of the Hillsborough River that was the first European settlement in the area. Founded in 1824, Ft. Brooke was abandoned as a military post in 1832, by which time the settlement of Tampa had taken root.(Historic Guides and the Tampa Historical Society)
Submitted: February 14, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p96367
File Size: 1.933 Megabytes

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