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African Cemetery at Higgs Beach
The
African Cemetery
at Higgs
Beach
is an
historic
cemetery
in
Key West, Florida
. It
contains
many
graves
of the 295
Africans
who
died
in
Key West
after being rescued in 1860 from
captured
slave ships
. The cemetery was
discovered
in
2002
using
ground-penetrating radar
. On
June 26
,
2012
, it was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
.