Friday, January 16, 2009

The Forgotten Ones

In small-town Florida, there's a little path off of a side road called Penny Lane. If you choose to take it, you will come upon a long-abandoned resting place for about twenty souls. The cemetery is called Fort Mason Cemetery and it is sadly evident that it has become the Forgotten Cemetery.

The little cemetery is in such a state of disrepair, with crumbling stones and a dozen or so unmarked graves. Somehow, it draws you in still, and quietly whispers "remember us". The families there lived in a Florida settlement that is no more, as it fell victim to the great freeze of the late 1890s (as did many other ghost towns in the Sunshine State).

Here are some pictures of the peaceful place, so that Fort Mason Cemetery is not entirely forgotten: