Quarantine Station Cemetery Also known as Seafarer's Cemetery Santa Rosa Island Escambia County, Florida, USA : Find a Grave Note:The cemetery is defunct, destroyed by time, the headstones occasionally turn up in the sands of Pensacola Beach, Florida. There are eight interments ranging from 1881 to 1911. Some interments are from the Spanish-American War.
Wikipedia =The Battle of Santa Rosa Island (October 9, 1861) was an unsuccessful Confederate attempt to take Union-held Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island, Florida.Santa Rosa Island is a 40-mile barrier island in the U.S. state of Florida, thirty miles from the Alabama state border. At the western end stands Fort Pickens, which in the fall of 1861 was garrisoned by parts of the 1st, 2nd, and 5th...