Two Fort Lauderdale Sites Included in Florida’s African American Historic Places List

A statewide inventory of African American historic places in Florida includes two Fort Lauderdale locations: Old Dillard High School and Woodlawn Cemetery. Both appear under Broward County in a list that groups sites by the nearest community named in the source material.

The inventory is based on a publication associated with the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. Its purpose, as described in the source, is to identify places connected to African American history across Florida. The list extends beyond Fort Lauderdale and includes locations in counties throughout the state.

The source distinguishes among several kinds of historic recognition. Some places are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as individual properties or as parts of larger historic districts. Some are identified as National Historic Landmarks, while others have Florida historical markers. The listing does not say that every site has the same designation, and the Fort Lauderdale entries in the supplied material are not accompanied by individual status labels.

That distinction matters when using the inventory as a starting point for local reporting. Inclusion establishes that Old Dillard High School and Woodlawn Cemetery are part of a statewide compilation of African American historic places. It does not, by itself, specify whether either Fort Lauderdale site is separately listed on the National Register, included in a district, designated as a National Historic Landmark or marked through Florida’s historical-marker program.

The extract also does not provide construction dates, descriptions of the buildings or grounds, the people associated with them, or accounts of how the sites have been used over time. It points readers toward more precise location information in the underlying references, but those details are not included here. As a result, this entry is best understood as a verified identification of two Fort Lauderdale sites rather than a full history of either place.

For a local LGBTQ-focused newsroom, the list offers a useful framework for examining how Fort Lauderdale’s African American heritage is documented alongside other histories of place. Any deeper account—whether focused on preservation, community memory, public recognition or the experiences connected to these sites—would require consulting the cited references and local records. Based solely on the supplied inventory, the central finding is straightforward: Old Dillard High School and Woodlawn Cemetery are the Broward County entries identified for Fort Lauderdale.

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Further links listed by the Wikipedia page (not independently checked): - https://archive.org/stream/flblackheri00flor#page/47/mode/1up Image rights Photograph description: N AFRICAN-AMERICAN CEMETERY LOCATED EAST OF INTERSTATE 95. FOUNDED IN THE 1920S, LYNCHING VICTIM REUBEN STACEY WAS BURIED THERE IN 1935. BURIALS NO LONGER TAKE PLACE THERE. IT WAS RESTORED IN 2002. Creator: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D.. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). Original image page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANORTH_WOODLAWN_CEMETERY%2C_FORT_LAUDERDALE%2C_BROWARD_COUNTY%2C_FL.jpg. The image was resized for display; no other changes were made.