Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is located on Garden Key in the lower Florida Keys within the Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70 miles (110 km) west of the island of Key West.

Fort Jefferson is 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

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson

Fort Jefferson

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