Rosewood is an unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, located just off State Road 24, approximately 1 mi northeast of Sumner and 9 mi northeast of Cedar Key. The town is known for the 1923 Rosewood massacre, when a lynch mob of White residents from nearby towns destroyed its prosperous African-American community in response to the alleged rape of a White woman.

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