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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: January 9, 2010
Caption: Oaklawn Cemetery Marker
Additional Description: Judge
Joseph B.
Lancaster
First Mayor
City of Tampa
1856
Joseph Lancaster was Tampa’s first mayor. He was also a judge, sitting on the Florida Supreme Court in 1851, and Speaker of the Florida House in 1843-47. A persistent mystery surrounds the grave of this prominent early Tampan. While local records, Masonic accounts and a headstone confirm that Lancaster was buried in Oaklawn in 1856, a memorial stone for the judge also exists in the old city cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida. Some wags have suggested that an astute politician like Judge Lancaster would have had no difficulty lying in two places at once. (Historic Guides and the Tampa Historical Society)
Submitted: February 17, 2010, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p96797
File Size: 0.380 Megabytes

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