Evergreen Cemetery

Evergreen Cemetery was established by the Evergreen Cemetery Company in 1892 as a final resting place for local families. Its land was purchased by M.B. Lyman, Lantana’s founder, who is buried there, served as the town’s first postmaster, and named the town Lantana Point after the flowering lantana plant that grew in the area; “Point” was later dropped from the town’s name. The cemetery’s earliest marked gravestone is dated January 22, 1886. There are 18 marked gravesites where members of the town’s eight pioneer families are buried. Two crew members from the shipwreck Inchulva, which sank in a hurricane off Delray Beach in 1903, occupy unmarked graves. Several members of the African-American community were buried there during the early 20th century, and the cemetery also contains the mass grave of some victims of the 1928 Hurricane. In 1952, ownership of the cemetery was transferred to the Town of Lantana and it was closed to further burials.

Lantana, Florida · United States