Water Street: 1830s grave shafts under a billion-dollar development (Channelside Dr. and Meridian Ave., Tampa, 2018)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1830 · Places: Florida
SUMMARYWater Street: 1830s grave shafts under a billion-dollar development (Channelside Dr. and Meridian Ave., Tampa, 2018) [Connections: Tampa Bay, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDThe Tampa Bay Times found human remains "in three grave shafts from an 1830s-era burial ground" (the Estuary Cemetery) during construction of the Water Street Tampa development in September 2018. WTSP reports experts believe the graves belong to Fort Brooke's Estuary Cemetery, which may hold both U.S. soldiers and Native Americans. A Times headline of July 18, 2019 reads that the developer "still won't say" who was buried there; its summary says the remains were "properly exhumed and turned over to their descendants." Seminole Tribe member Cypress told WTSP: "We shouldn't have to move our gravesites."
PATTERNA second Fort Brooke burial ground surfaced under private development forty years after the first
LENS (WW9)Downtown keeps telling us the same thing: it is built on graves
OPENWho the "descendants"/"stakeholders" were (Seminole Tribe? Army?), and the number of individuals; full Times article is paywalled
SOURCEIt began with Zion (Tampa Bay Times map); Who was buried beneath Water Street? (Tampa Bay Times, 2019); WTSP.