As Clearwater’s Black community grew, the city commission created North Greenwood Cemetery, also known as the Clearwater Colored Cemetery, by resolution on January 2, 1940, establishing a 1.5-acre segregated cemetery on city land and ending the use of the private cemetery at St. Matthew Baptist Church, founded in 1909 in the Clearwater Heights neighborhood, as the primary African American burial ground. In 1947, after the Pinellas County Superintendent of Schools reported that Clearwater’s segregated school buildings were obsolete and a fire hazard, officials began seeking a new school site, while the city also looked for a permanent Negro recreation area with a pool, gymnasium, and ball field. By 1954, the city and school board joined efforts to build Pinellas High School and a recreation area on a 30-acre tract of city land, including a land swap that gave the cemetery plot to the school board in exchange for land for the pool. As part of that arrangement, the city commission agreed to relocate the graves and approved moving no more than 375 bodies from the city cemetery to a new location east of Dunedin, now Parklawn Memorial Cemetery. In 1961-62, Palmetto Elementary School was built on the North Greenwood Cemetery site. In 2019, it was discovered that only the marked graves had been relocated, leaving several unmarked and displaced graves behind. The site remains a cemetery and reflects African American burial customs traceable to the time of enslavement, with loved ones having left coins, glass flower vases, and conch shells on graves as acts of remembrance; though no longer visible, these artifacts and many graves remain in areas on both sides of Holt Avenue.