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A complete timeline of Tampa’s erased Zion Cemetery

It took two years to compile the story of the Black segregation-era burial ground.

This is a map of Zion Cemetery that was filed with the Hillsborough County Clerk in 1901. [ Courtesy of Hillsborough County Clerk of Courts ]

Paul Guzzo
Former Culture and Hillsborough Reporter

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