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Solares Hill is the highest point in Key West, measuring 18 feet above the average mean sea level. In 1846, the Havana Hurricane struck Key West as a category 4 storm, with seven-foot-high waves crashing through the Historic District and washing over the island from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. Many survivors of the hurricane crawled to Solares Hill and clung to trees and vegetation to ride out the storm.
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