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The Balboa Cemetery, also known as the Panama City Colored Cemetery, is one of many abandoned African American cemeteries around Florida that have recently been discovered.
'This isn’t an isolated story.'
The Balboa Cemetery or the Panama City Colored Cemetery, is one of many abandoned African American cemeteries that have recently been discovered throughout Florida.
While the white cemetery is well maintained to this day, the Black burial ground is under a Goodyear tire shop.
State Sen. Janet Cruz, D-Tampa, has said that state archaeologists believe there are nearly 3,000 lost Black cemeteries in Florida.