Hickory Bluff Cemetery was established in the late 1800s beside land purchased on June 2, 1884, by July Roberts, an early African-American settler. Initial burials began after the Civil War, when freed African-Americans settled in the area and worked in farming and fishing. William Curry, an early white landowner, added to the original plot and recorded that a “colored cemetery” was already in existence. Burial records before 1908 are undocumented, but the last cemetery caretaker recorded fourteen known burials between 1908 and the final interment in 1947. The cemetery is now owned and maintained by Charlotte County.