Buried Florida: The Fun Coastline

Florida’s Fun Coastline has long been defined by speed, adventure, and the ocean.

Buried and remembered inside graveyards, churchyards, memorial gardens, and pet cemeteries are the people and animals that helped shape the history of this coastline. The Fun Coastline is proud to call itself the Birthplace of Speed, boasting a unique beach-racing history. NASCAR legends and other pioneers of speed and racing are buried across this region. Generations of lighthouse cats, spanning a century, are put to rest in a small cemetery space in Ponce Inlet, each having served the lighthouse and its keepers. At the Flagler Beach Flagler Memorial Gardens, sculptures, carvings, and photographs commemorate the individuals who are remembered there. Unlike many other remote burial mounds across Florida, a centuries-old Timucua burial mound sits at a traffic intersection in a residential area. Buried inside are more than 100 Timucua dead.

The Fun Coastline offers stunning ocean and river views, a rich and diverse history, and countless stories waiting to be discovered beneath its sands, in its soil and waters, and among its buried dead.