Woodlawn Cemetery tours spotlight West Palm Beach history; seasonal reservations required

Volunteer historians and the West Palm Beach Parks Department are offering seasonal storytelling tours of Woodlawn Cemetery that organizers say connect residents and visitors with the city’s 19th- and early-20th-century past.

The tours, led in part by writer and historian Ginger Peterson, are offered October–November and January–April; reservations are opened one month at a time and are free through Eventbrite, Peterson said. “We just do reservations through a system called Eventbrite only because we don't want too many people,” Peterson said, adding that typical group size is 40 to 60 people.

Why it matters: Woodlawn is the city’s public cemetery and contains burials and markers that trace West Palm Beach’s growth from its founding through major events such as the 1928 hurricane, when some victims were interred in a mass grave because of the public‑health…