Poorhouse Lane is a name that frequently evokes a grin. It sounds slightly daft in this day and age, but getting sent to the poorhouse in the 19th century was a dire fate on either side of the Atlantic Ocean. All that's left of the Key West poorhouse is the name, on the lane that fronts the cemetery at Windsor Lane.
Poorhouse Lane is one of three entrances to Bill Butler Park. There are no benches in the park thanks to the collective punishment mentality that wants to deny the park to idlers, thus preventing others from resting there. And dog walkers are a common sight in this part of Old Town.
The Key West Cemetery is a 19-acre (77,000 m2) 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 northwest section of the Old Town area of the island.
The cemetery was established in 1847 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.[2] 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.
This small bison tube should be hidden back better than it was found. Thank you!