SARDIS

NAME: Sardis
COUNTY: Manatee
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 4
CLIMATE: Hot in summer
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime 		COMMENTS: None. North of Clay Gully road and west side of M&J Road on the property of a sod farm. You can enter the sod farm main entrance and take the first left to the Sardis cemetary.
REMAINS: Cemetary
In the 1850's the people of Sardis reportedly worshiped under a palmetto roofed shelter before the constructed a church/school just west of the cemetary. Submitted by: Mike Woodfin Information courtesy of Melissa Brewer, whose copyrighted work appears on Manatee GenWeb, www.rootsweb.com/~flmanate.


Sardis, Florida Cemetary. Note the shells on top of the mounds
Mike Woodfin
Photo copyrighted 2002 Melissa Brewer, reprinted with permission."


Sardis, Florida Cemetary. Note the shells on top of the mounds
Mike Woodfin
Photo copyrighted 2002 Melissa Brewer, reprinted with permission."

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