Lt. Carl Bailey Cemetery has served this area’s African-American community as a final resting place for over 120 years. The cemetery was called the Cleveland Cemetery, established in the 1880s on land owned by New York investor W. Irving Scott. The Punta Gorda Colored Investment Company took over the cemetery’s management in 1913 and Charlotte County assumed control in 1986.
Please be courteous to those interred.
Under U.S. Army 10th Cavalry, Company K,
he kept the U.S.- Mexican border at bay.
A First Sergeant "Buffalo Soldier" with "Black Jack,"
all of his fellow soldiers were black.