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Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Pleasant Grove Cemetery

Many former Arcadia residents are buried in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery a few miles northeast of Arcadia. The earliest burial is J.H. Anderson in 1878. The cemetery is located directly behind the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church on C.R. 1470. The grave markers include a variety of types (tablet, ledger, pedestal, etc.) and styles (vernacular, art deco, classical revival, etc.) and materials (brick, marble, granite, and concrete, etc.)