Hurricane of 1928

Hurricane of 1928 (HM2DP9)

Location: Moore Haven, FL 33471 Glades County
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Country: United States of America
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N 26° 48.97', W 81° 18.088'

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The Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928 was the most deadly hurricane ever to strike the state of Florida. An estimated 2500 persons in South Florida died when the storm came ashore on September 16, 1928 near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm beach County to Lake Okeechobee. Many of the hurricane's fatalities, most of them migrant farm workers, occurred when the Lake Okeechboee dike was overwhelmed and the populated south side of the lake was flooded with a 15-20 ft storm surge. The floodwaters carried victims and survivors as far as ten miles from the lakeshore along nearly the entire south half of the lake, from Moore Haven to Pahokee. Noted Florida writer Zora Neale Hurston used the events surrounding the tragedy in her 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" as she described the recovery and burial of the dead. The Ortona Cemetery contains the unmarked graves of several hundred victims of the 1928 hurricane, as well as the victims of the 1926 hurricane that devasted Glades County. Several hundred African-American victims of the Okeechobee Hurricane were buried in a mass grave in the City of West Palm Beach's pauper cemetery.
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HM NumberHM2DP9
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Year Placed2012
Placed ByRepresentatives Denise Grimsley (2004-2012) & Joseph R. Spratt (1996-2004), Florida House of Representatives District 77, and the Florida Department of State
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Date Added Sunday, January 20th, 2019 at 10:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17R E 470041 N 2966109
Decimal Degrees26.81616667, -81.30146667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 26° 48.97', W 81° 18.088'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds26° 48' 58.2" N, 81° 18' 5.2800000000001" W
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Area Code(s)863
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 8725 FL-78, Moore Haven FL 33471, US
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