SAFETY HARBOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CEMETERY
Clearwater (near border of Safety Harbor), Pinellas Co, FL
Photo taken 27 May 2005

New cemetery sign as of 2023. (Photo taken 05 Oct 2025).

NEGLECTED AND OVERGROWN CEMETERY--in 2017 it's ;now getting help:
The Safety Harbor African American Cemetery Restoration Project is currently underway. All volunteers are welcome. Contact Jacqueline Hayes for more information: 617-359-1552.

Notes: The Safety Harbor African-American Cemetery is located at 2698 South Drive, Clearwater, Florida. Although the cemetery is a Safety Harbor Cemetery, changes in boundaries over the years have placed it within the city limits of the City of Clearwater.

The Safety Harbor African-American Cemetery was re-discovered by Pinellas County lot clearing crews in 1996. The oldest legible marker is that of young Samuel E. Swann who died in 1896. It lies on Lot 15 of Ehle subdivision (Plat Bk 28 Page 39) SW 1/4 of Sec. 5 Twp 29 S, Range 16 E, Lying northerly and westerly of County Road 50. The land was originally Coachman Family property; story has it that the lot was donated by Coachman's as a restingplace of African-Americans of the time. Coachman lost the land to the state during the depression and the property was purchased by Alfred and Louisa Ehle who created a subdivision with all but Lot 15. The Ehle's deeded Lot 15 to
"St. Vincent Helping Hand Society" in 1951. In 1953 St. Vincent deeded Lot 15to the "Safety Harbor Colored Community".

Unfortunately, the Safety Harbor Cemetery has fallen into a state of neglect over the years. It is not clearhow many individuals were buried in this cemetery, as many were buriedwithout headstones and a five of those remaining are no longer readable. --SIXDOGTEAM