Tolomato Cemetery

The site was a Franciscan mission village for Guale Indian converts before it became a cemetery — and it held that second role from the British Period through 1884. Roughly a thousand St. Augustinians are buried in under an acre, among them America's first black general, Jorge Biassou, a leader of the Haitian Revolution who died a Spanish general in St. Augustine in 1801, and Father Félix Varela, Cuban priest and social reformer. The Cathedral parish and the Diocese of St. Augustine still own it. It opens the third Saturday of each month.