The Key West Cemetery (officially, Historic Key West City Cemetery ) is a 19-acre (77,000 m) cemetery at the foot of Solares Hill on the island of Key West , Florida , United States .
3-565: It is estimated that as many as 100,000 people are buried there, many more than the 30,000 residents who currently live on the island. It is in the northwest section of the Old Town area of the island. In 1847 it was established at its current location after an 1846 hurricane washed dead bodies from the earlier cemetery out of the coastal sand dunes on Whitehead Point near the West Martello Towers . An African Memorial Cemetery
6-647: The City of Key West) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on March 11, 1971) located in Key West , Florida . It encompasses approximately 4,000 acres (16 km ), bounded by White, Angela, Windsor, Passover, Thomas and Whitehead Streets, and the Gulf of Mexico . It contains 187 historic buildings and one structure. On February 24, 1983, the district was expanded to 5,400 acres (22 km ), bounded by Emma, Whitehead, White, and South Streets, Mallory Square, and
9-608: Was dedicated beside the West Martello Tower in 2009. Slaves, ill from the sea voyage to slavery in "The New World," were buried there prior to the US Civil War. In 2005, the cemetery was among those profiled in the PBS documentary A Cemetery Special . One headstone has a birthdate of 1792. Another records a death in 1843. Old Town, Key West The Key West Historic District (also known as Old Town of
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