Tolomato Cemetery Times
The Past and Present of Historic Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Restored at last!
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Today was an exciting day at Tolomato Cemetery. Janet Jordan and I went out to await the arrival of the restored stone that had covered the ...
Monday, July 14, 2014
Phase 1 is done!
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The slow and multi-phased process of restoring the floor and the stone in the Varela Chapel has gotten one step closer to completion. Here...
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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