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  • Key West Cemetary
  • 701 Passover Ln
  • (main entrance)
  • Key West, FL 33040

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Key West Cemetary

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

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 northeast section of the Old Town area of the island.
In 1847 it was established at its current location 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. An African Memorial Cemetery 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.

  • Key West Cemetary
  • 701 Passover Ln
  • (main entrance)
  • Key West, FL 33040

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