 The cemetery is situated near the junction of 25th Street and Tamarind Avenue between I-95 and U.S. Route 1.The site is the location in which 674 bodies of African Americans or those of an unknown race were buried following the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, while most of the white victims of the storm received a proper burial at Woodlawn Cemetery, due to segregation laws.Established in 1913, the property of the pauper's cemetery currently includes approximately of land.