Confederate Section, Tolomato Cemetery, St. Augustine, FL (Jim Studnicki)

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Description: During the First Spanish Period, prior to 1763, this site was occupied by the Christian Indian village of Tolomato, with its chapel and burying ground served by Christian missionaries. The village was abandoned when Great Britain acquired Florida. In 1777 Father Pedro Camps, pastor of the Minorcan colonists, who had come to St. Augustine after the failure of Andrew Turnbull's settlement at New Smyrna, obtained permission from Governor Patrick Tonyn to establish this cemetery for his parishoners. Father Camps was buried here in 1790; ten years later his remains were re-interred in the "new church," the present Catherdral. The first bishop of St. Augustine, Augustin Verot (d. 1826), is buried in the mortuary chapel at the rear of the cemetery. The last burial took place in 1892.

Source: St. Johns County Historical Commission marker.

Civil War Florida Location ID: 712 |  Edit this Location | Revision History
Created by: CivilWarFlorida Administrator           on July 3rd, 2004 7:06:59 PM EST

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Nation's Oldest City: The saga of the Tolomato people, from Georgia to Florida to Cuba
If you've been lured by the advertisement for Tolomato Island residential community, don't plan on living near St. Augustine. The development near Darien, Georgia, takes it name from the Tolomato Indian village located in that area 400 years ago. The name of our own Tolomato River takes its name from the same source. Over the years the trail of the village of Tolomato wound ever southward down the coastal islands and ultimately departed the North American mainland for Cuba. Until the middle of the 1600s, the Tolomato people inhabited the area around St. Catherine's Island on the Georgia coast....

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