TALES FROM THE CRYPTS: Stories the Key West Cemetery Still Tells

From sailors and statesmen to a woman who “told you I was sick,” the city’s 19-acre graveyard on Solares Hill is a living history of paradise, loss, and laughter.

“We take our living seriously,” one local guide says,

“but we take our dying lightly.”

The Key West City Cemetery was born from disaster.

In October 1846, a hurricane locals still call the Havana Storm…