Yarborough Cemetery in Belize City, Belize

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Coordinates: 17.48840, -88.18905
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From The Handbook of British Honduras for 1888-89, Comprising Historical, Statistical, and General Information Concerning the Colony, compiled from Official and Other Reliable Records, by Lindsay W. Bristowe of the Judicial Department, and Phillip B. Wright of the Colonial Secretary's Department, published by William Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London, 1888:

"The Old Cemetery, Yarborough, was given to the Government by a Bayman of that name [i.e., James Dundas Yarborough], on the condition that it should be set apart as a place of burial. This was done at a public meeting of the inhabitants, on the 25th July 1787, and its entire management and control were placed in the hands of cemetery trustees.

The ground was consecrated by the Bishop of Jamaica in 1826.

For nearly one hundred years, or until 1877, when the management of public cemeteries was transferred to the Government, this was the only public cemetery in Belize; but in that year, owing to the increase of the population, and to the fact that the Old Cemetery was nearly full, the New Cemetery was formed a little to the south of the old one, the latter being then closed. The land, however, in the New Cemetery proved so low that it could not be dug to any depth, and the Government, at the end of 1881, closed the New Cemetery, and in 1882 opened the Vaults, a super-terrene structure, which had been erected in the previous year on the site known as Queen Charlotte's Town."