Right on Rt. 776, there is the small, relatively overlooked raised area referred to as “Historic Lemon Bay Cemetery”. There are at about 700 folks buried there and it is the home of these two interesting sites.

There is a  site that has an international flavor. Beneath a pink tombstone, we can find the final resting place for Emile Gauguin, the first son of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin and his Danish wife Mette-Sofie Gad. In their nine years together they had five children. Strangely enough, none of his heirs live in France, with the majority living in Denmark because Mette-Sofie stayed there after Paul left her to go back to Paris to paint. He later went back to Tahiti (at the expense of the French Government), where he lived with a 14-year old vahine named Taha'amana.

Englewood’s connection to

Paul Gauguin; his son Emile is buried here. Please help us as we establish a Gauguin Museum. Contact us to see how you can help.

Gauguin Museum…?

Arts Alliance of Lemon Bay, Inc.

Preface    written by

Emile Gauguin

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