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Monday: ClosedTuesday: 9AM - 5PM
Wednesday: 9AM - 5PM
Thursday: 9AM - 5PM
Friday: 9AM - 5PM
Saturday: 9AM - 5PM
Sunday: Closed
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Google: 3.4/5
Port Mayaca Cemetery
23900 SW Kanner Hwy, Canal Point
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We went there looking to find out more about the mass burial for the 1928 hurricane victims and found only the historical marker by the entrance. There was no one there that we could ask and there was nothing else about it inside the cemetery.
Port Mayaca Memorial Gardens is located in unincorporated Martin County on State Road 76. This sparsely populated area is named for the Mayaca tribe. The cemetery was formed when this site was chosen to bury the victims of the 1928 Hurricane that claimed the lives of many Glades residents. An estimated 3,000 people died as a result of the category 5 hurricane, three quarters of which were African-American migrant farm workers. The hurricane caused the earthen dikes surrounding Lake Okeechobee to collapse resulting in flooding that caused many people to drown. Over 1,600 people were buried at Port Mayaca in a mass grave. The marker for the hurricane victims is in the east...read full review