Rosewood is an unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, located just off State Road 24, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Sumner and 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Cedar Key. [1]

The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150.

May 4, 2018 · The Rosewood Massacre was an attack on the predominantly African American town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1923 by large groups of white aggressors. The town was entirely destroyed by the end of...

Jan 8, 2023 · In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days....

Jan 4, 2023 · A hundred years ago, central Florida was home to a town called Rosewood. And then, suddenly, it wasn’t. In January 1923, Rosewood was wiped off the map by a week of mob violence, then erased...

Jan 1, 2025 · Rosewood massacre of 1923, an incident of racial violence that lasted several days in January 1923 in the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. Although some have estimated as many as 200 people were killed, an official study placed the death toll at eight.

Oct 21, 2022 · In January 1923, an all-white mob of at least 200 people descended on the Black town of Rosewood, Florida and razed the entire community. The massacre remained largely hidden until a journalist published an exposé in 1982 — nearly 60 years later.

Jan 6, 2023 · Nine miles before Florida State Road 24 dead-ends in the Gulf of Mexico, a cast aluminum historical marker stands next to a white two-story home – all that is left of Rosewood, a once-thriving, predominantly Black town terrorized and razed to the ground by a racist mob 100 years ago this month.

Welcome to The Real Rosewood Foundation, dedicated to preserving and sharing the legacy of Rosewood, Florida. We are a historical foundation that is committed to advancing public interest in the forgotten history around Rosewood, and the communities that call it home.

A Documented History Of the Massacre which occured at Rosewood, Florida, in January 1923, was submitted to the Florida Board of Regents on December 22, 1993 from The Rosewood Report. FOR EXTENSIVE DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY VISIT THE ROSEWOOD REPORT