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Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert 2023-03-06 01:29:33

A property flipper bought a historic Black cemetery after the city of Tampa unexpectedly lost control of the property in a blind auction. The city's mayor 'may as well have spit on those graves,' preservationist says.

Memorial Park Cemetery in Tampa, Florida, is a historic, segregation-era Black gravesite. After the cemetery's owner died in 2019, the city took over the maintenance of the property. Tampa lost control of the cemetery in January when a property flipper outbid officials at auction. The city of Tampa, Florida has lost control of a historic Black cemetery it had been maintaining after a property flipper outbid officials in a blind auction. Memorial Park Cemetery was established in 1919 and is the final resting place of an estimated 11,000 marked and unmarked grave sites, including 6,000 headstones, preservationist Aileen Henderson of the Cemetery Society told Insider.

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