Just feet away from children playing in the park and beautiful old oak trees, is an unbelievable site. A gravesite for a man who died decades ago buried, in the middle of a sidewalk, in the historic Durkeeville community.
A gravesite is in an unusual spot in the middle of a sidewalk in a Jacksonville neighborhood just feet away from children playing in the park.A gravesite is in an unusual spot in the middle of a sidewalk in a Jacksonville neighborhood just feet away from children playing in the park.News4JAX went to get answers about the Durkeeville burial site that has been there for decades. It’s right next to Emmett Reed Community Center and tennis courts.
“This alone should let you know that the development of this street and its infrastructure was built over a cemetery, and they moved the grave in the middle of the sidewalk just to do it,” Davis said. But 20 steps away, the rest of the cemetery is still here with children playing just feet away in the park.“Yes, one particular family and this would’ve been the entrance.”
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