Southland Trail Cemetery, believed to be a non-white cemetery, is the final resting place for an undisclosed number of leased convict laborers, blacks, and possibly 18th century Spanish-Indian fishermen. Its age is unknown, though locals call it the Convict Cemetery. From around 1910, Florida’s leased convict labor system allowed the railroad and naval stores industries to lease inexpensive convict labor crews from area jails. These laborers worked on rail lines and in turpentine camps, where conditions were often cruel and inhumane. Convict laborers endured malnutrition, malaria, exposure, wildfires, and beatings, often dying at the hands of whipping bosses employed to keep the workers in line. Most leased convict laborers were blacks imprisoned under harsh Jim Crow laws. Convict leasing continued until 1923, when Florida legislators banned the practice. The cemetery lies near the site of the Weeks-Gurganious turpentine camp, served as the camp’s burial ground and as a cemetery for blacks, and remained in use until its last interment in 1966.