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Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. The park covers 101 mi² (262 km²), mostly water, about 68 statute miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Fort Jefferson - Dry Tortugas National Park

"Along The Rampart"

Fort Jefferson is a three-tiered fort and six-sided with 420 heavy-gun emplacements. I can not imagine how many ship visits were required to supply 16 million bricks for the construction. There will be more historical items of interest to follow with additional posts. The boat trip there was fairly rough with some people getting seasick.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. The park covers 101 mi² (262 km²), mostly water, about 68 statute miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico.

......The park's centerpiece is Fort Jefferson, a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. It is the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere, and is composed of over 16 million bricks. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"

"Fort Jefferson Lighthouse"

This current metal light tower was installed atop Bastion C of Fort Jefferson in 1876. The partial view in the background of the parade grounds helps give some scale to the magnitude of the fort.

"The lighthouse, also known as the Garden Key Lighthouse, is featured on a new USA $0.44 stamp this year.
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_062.htm

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"On January 4, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited the area by ship, designated the area as Fort Jefferson National Monument. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 10, 1970. On October 26, 1992 the Dry Tortugas, including Fort Jefferson, was established as a National Park. The islands still do not exhibit any standing fresh water or even seasonal streams, hence the "dry" name. Owing to the potential difficulties of survival in such conditions, one of these islands was used as the location for filming a military survival film used to train aircraft personnel. The shipwrecks located in the waters surrounding Fort Jefferson were extensively mapped and researched in the early 1990s through several projects spearheaded by the NPS Submerged Resources Center. The mapping and survey work conducted culminated in the SRC's publication of Dry Tortugas National Park Site Assesment which outlines many of the sites which can be observed within the park's boundaries."

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