There may be as many as 10 human bodies buried beneath the asphalt and soil of Tropicana Field’s Parking Lot 1.
If they’re in fact under there, they were originally interred at Oaklawn Cemetery, which stood on the site between 1906 and 1926.
City Council voted last week to fund the latest step in a multi-part exploration and, if necessary, exhumation process that began in 2020, and continued as plans for the area’s redevelopment were formulated. One proviso insisted on by the Council was that the latest work will not begin until the 2026 baseball season has ended, in September or October…