Atop Fort Jefferson
by Don Mercer
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Atop Fort Jefferson
Artist
Don Mercer
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Photograph - Photograph
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After driving to Key West, Florida, in early January 2015, I took a ferry one day for about three hours westward to land at Dry Tortugas National Park. The principal attraction at the Park is Fort Jefferson, a long ago bulwark in our nation's defense. The fort was built as a resupply base and staging area for Navy ships to patrol the Gulf of Mexico and Straits of Florida. While never fully finished as originally designed, construction of the fort ensued from 1846 to 1875. Shown here is Garden Key Light, named for the "key," or island, on which it was constructed. It is also known as Tortuga Harbor Light. (Source: National Park Service)
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April 8th, 2016
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