Print ArticleIf you're the type of person who believes in ghost, ghouls, and goblins, here are few sites in town you might want to avoid this weekend.
Moncrief Cemetery District
This just might be the most disturbed place in Jacksonville. There are four prominent cemeteries near the intersection of Moncrief Road and 45th Street, that were established for African-Americans during the Jim Crow era. Most of these burial grounds were maintained by the Memorial Cemetery Association. The association was created by Jacksonville's first black millionaire, Abraham Lincoln Lewis. Already in decline, when Abraham Lincoln Lewis's Afro-American Life Insurance Company ceased operations in 1990, no entity was left to maintain them. Today, these cemeteries contain broken vaults and exposed caskets in a landscape where mother nature is naturally reclaiming what had been a well maintained final resting place for many early 20th century African-American Jaxsons.
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