Fort Jefferson
Fort Jefferson is a former U.S. military coastal fortress in the Dry Tortugas National Park of Florida. It is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas, covering 16 acres and constructed of over 16 million bricks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: fortified island in Florida, USA
- Also known as: “Fort Jefferson National Monument” and “Fort Jefferson, Florida”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dry Tortugas National Park and Tortuga Harbor Light.
Dry Tortugas National Park
Photo: Dry Tortugas NPS, CC BY 2.0.
Dry Tortugas National Park is a United States national park that contains a cluster of islands about 70 mi west of Key West, Florida, on Garden Key.
Tortuga Harbor Light
Lighthouse
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Garden Key Light, also known as the Tortuga Harbor Light, is located at Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key in the Dry Tortugas, Florida. The first lighthouse, started in 1824 and first lit in 1826, was a brick conical tower.
Fort Jefferson
- Categories: island and sea fort
- Location: Monroe, Florida, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Vietnamese—“Fort Jefferson” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Форт Джеферсън”
- Cebuano: “Fort Jefferson National Monument”
- Czech: “Fort Jefferson”
- Dutch: “Fort Jefferson”
- French: “Fort Jefferson”
- German: “Fort Jefferson”
- Hebrew: “פורט ג’פרסון (פלורידה)”
- Hebrew: “פורט ג’פרסון”
- Italian: “Fort Jefferson”
- Japanese: “ジェファーソン砦”
- Japanese: “フォート・ジェファーソン”
- Polish: “Fort Jefferson”
- Russian: “Форт Джефферсон”
- Russian: “Форт-Джефферсон”
- Vietnamese: “Fort Jefferson, Florida”
- Vietnamese: “Fort Jefferson”
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