Alternate Name(s): Blue Family Cemetery

Civil War Florida Location ID: 836 |  Edit this Location | Revision History
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Blue Family Cemetery
The Blue Family Cemetery is located on PRIVATE PROPERTY belonging to a Mrs. McDonald. Directions to the cemetery: In the community of Lithia, take Highway 640 east from State Road 39 to Keysville Road. Turn north to Porter Road. Turn east, go about 1/2 mile and the cemetery is located on the farm property owned by Mrs. McDonald.

Brandontimes: What's in a name?
Keysville grew as its sawmill fed the building boom at the turn of the century. But by 1918, timber was depleted. By MICHELLE JONES, Times Staff Writer Published October 3, 2003 Daniel McQueen Blue was a prominent early settler in Keysville, a community located south of the Alafia River off County Road 39. Keysville began as a farming community in the 1870s. In 1878, Blue named the community after Gen. David Key who was the U.S. postmaster general at the time.

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