Tolomato Cemetery Times
The Past and Present of Historic Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Varela Stone Moves (for awhile)
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As regular Tolomato visitors and readers of this blog know, the chapel at Tolomato Cemetery was originally designed in 1853 as a funeral cha...
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Before It’s Too Late–Preserving Inscriptions
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Visitors to St Augustine always love to stop by the cemetery at night and peer through the fence, usually seeing nothing but the lights of t...
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Decoration Day and Tolomato Freedmen
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Memorial Day is approaching, so this seemed like a timely moment to find some new Tolomato connections. As we all know – well, those of us ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Meanwhile, in Spain…Pageantry!
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Tolomato Cemetery was open to the public as usual on the Third Saturday of the month, this year on April 19. But that week was also Holy We...
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Demise of the Gravestone
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Walking through old St Mary's Cemetery in Charleston, SC, I was touched by all the stories told by the gravestones. Burials started ther...
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Friday, March 21, 2014
Yet Another Tolomato Connection Found.
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Just in time for the St Patrick’s season, we have an interesting glimpse of the Irish life of Fr. Felix Varela, for whom the Varela Chapel a...
Saturday, March 15, 2014
A Great Day for Great People!
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Here are our Tolomato Docents posing after a record day. We had 611 visitors today! The TCPA crew was exhausted by the time 3:00 pm rolled ...
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