Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum, cemetery in Miami, Florida, United States
Caballero Rivero Woodlawn Park North Cemetery and Mausoleum is a cemetery at 3260 SW 8th Street in Miami, between 32nd and 33rd Avenues. Its grounds are lawn with flat grave markers set flush with the grass and some upright headstones, bordered by trees. The entrance is a light grey stone wall and gate complex with square piers topped by crenellations and small carved shields, black metal gates, and a pointed-arch window with tracery.
The cemetery was founded in 1913, making it one of the oldest in Miami. The mausoleum was added in 1926, and the site took its current name after being acquired by two Havana-based funeral companies, Caballero and Rivero, in the early 1990s.
The cemetery holds the graves of Cuban presidents Gerardo Machado y Morales and Carlos Prío Socarrás, and of Lydia Cabrera, an ethnographer of Afro-Cuban culture. The Caballero and Rivero funeral homes that gave the site its name were founded in Havana in 1857 and 1946. The American Legion plot, bought in 1923, has an obelisk and statues for veterans.
The cemetery lies on SW 8th Street between 32nd and 33rd Avenue, so it can be reached by car along that main road. The photographs show a lawn with flat markers set flush with the ground and a few upright headstones, with trees along both sides. The entrance is a light grey stone wall and gate complex with square piers, crenellated tops and carved shields, closed black metal gates, and a pointed-arch window in the building section to the right.
The grounds hold 13 graves of British and New Zealand soldiers from World War II, including airmen and naval personnel, which is unusual for a city cemetery in Florida. The site is also said to be where the first schefflera and mahogany trees in the United States were planted.
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