Update 1 March 2021:  Read the Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021 The Stuart News front page article: "Restoring historical Black cemetery in Hobe Sound", by Catie Wegman, TCPalm's community reporter.

This small, desolate burial ground is located between the railroad tracks of the F.E.C. Railroad and Gomez Road in Hobe Sound, FL.  Once the site of a church that burned down a number of years ago (apparently by vandals), the cemetery is now just a vacant lot, the depository of unwanted refuse, and a playground for neighborhood trailbike riders.

Although it is occasionally maintained, most recently by the Banner Lake/Gomez Civic Association, it is but a memory to the once active church and its members.  The few memorial stones are hard to locate, in poor condition, broken, and overgrown.  Only about 25 stones could be located, the most recent with a date of 1969; the earliest bears a date of 1937.

Douglas W. Poulter,  Chairman,  MCGS Cemetery Committee,  Nov 1997

Gomez Cemetery burial layout
Gomez Cemetery index
Gomez Cemetery database
March 2017 Clean Up article

March 2019 Gomez History article

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