"Pinewood Cemetery or Peninsula Cemetery, is one of the oldest burial grounds in the Daytona Beach. The names of many of Daytona’s earliest settlers, including Burgoyne, Jackson, Day and Maley, can be seen. It is located on property purchased in 1873 by John W. Smith, a settler from Canada. He originally advertised the land as cemetery lots in 1883, but it was not used until 1887 when the first person to be buried there was his own 19-year-old daughter. “In the early 1900s, the cemetery was taken over by Charles Bingham and Jerome Maley who owned a furniture/undertaking establishment. They formed the original Pinewood Cemetery Corporation. It was at this time that the coquina walls and archways were built. In 1917, a lot cost $50. All the lots were sold more than 20 years ago as of 1986, and today, it is difficult to determine who owns the remaining empty lots. “The Pinewood Cemetery Corporation had a maintenance fund until the Depression when the Merchant’s Bank failed, and the money was lost. Because it is a private burial ground, both the city and the county refuse to assume the cost of its upkeep. However, in 1979, Albert Kingston, who is buried in Pinewood, left money in trust for the cemetery’s maintenance.” Sept 2022 the cemetery was temporarily closed for repairs. It is a private cemetery surrounded by a wall. There is also a single drive in and out of the cemetery that loops through, and there is no place to turn a car around. This place is packed with burials and family plots.The cemetery is full of beautiful old funerary art and has some unique headstones, crypts, and mausoleums. The design is also unique for Central Florida which is full of flat, sandy graveyards. This one is terraced and walking through the cemetery includes climbing meandering steps and walking along crooked paths. The city if Daytona Beach may have taken over the graveyard to control visitation and enforce hours of operation. However, there is no official link on the city website. Review includes info compiled by Historic Daytona Beach,” published by the Junior League of Daytona Beach in 1986.
I go to this place what I like to know is it a park more than then ten places to sit I stop each time I am in Daytona have enjoyed it many time But Saturday was put out by a Police officer For sitting on a bench well I guest tax dollars are no longer needed there I guess the officer playing on his phone and I walked past him and he did not notice me for 30min does not matter safety first
