Key West Cemetery

Key West Cemetery

The Key West Cemetery is a 19-acre cemetery on Solares Hill on the island of Key West, Florida, United States.

It is estimated that between 60,000-100,000 people are buried there, many more than the 30,000 residents who currently live on the island. [ [http://www.historicpreservationservices.org/keywestcemetery/index.html Key West City Cemetery] ]

It is in the Old Town area of the island.

History

It was established at its current location in 1847 after a 1846 hurricane washed dead bodies from the earlier cemetery out of the coastal sand dunes on Whitehead Point near the West Martello Towers. [ [http://www.historicpreservationservices.org/keywestcemetery/id9.html Key West Cemetery History] ] The cemetery is among those profiled in the 2005 PBS documentary "A Cemetery Special".

ections of the cemetery


External links

* [http://local.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=key+west&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=31.839416,59.238281&ie=UTF8&t=h&om=1&z=17&ll=24.55616,-81.794962&spn=0.00446,0.007231 Aerial View from Google Maps]

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