Huguenot Cemetery
Established in 1821 just as a yellow fever epidemic swept St. Augustine, the Huguenot Cemetery served as the city's first non-Catholic burial ground, laid out just beyond the old City Gate across from the Castillo de San Marcos. Among its most storied residents is Judge John B. Stickney, a Massachusetts-born U.S. Attorney who died in 1882; legend holds that when his body was later exhumed for reburial, gravediggers stepped away and thieves pried the gold teeth from his mouth. Visitors have since reported a shadowy figure in a dark hat wandering the headstones, said to be the judge endlessly searching for what was stolen from him. A second specter haunts the grounds as well — a girl of about fourteen, lost to the fever and buried without rites, who is said to drift among the trees in a flowing white gown and sometimes waves to those who pass.
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