about 70 miles west of Key West, and can only be reached by boat or plane. Fort Jefferson was used as a prison during the Civil War, according to NPS. As the population of prisoners, military ...

A correspondent writing from Fort Jefferson at Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas noted that about 40 enslaved workers, all of ...

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