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Sigsbee Park, also known as Dredgers Key, is an island about half a mile (800 m) north of Key West island in the lower Florida Keys; administratively it is within the City of Key West, Florida, United States. [1] It is connected to the island of Key West by Sigsbee Road. The island and causeway are part of the Key West Naval Air Station. It is ...
A native of Rhode Island, Joshua Appleby served as keeper of the Sand Key Light in the Florida Keys. Hurricanes in 1841 and 1842 caused considerable damage to the key, destroying Appleby's house and undermining the foundation of the light. The government repaired the damage and built a seawall, in hopes of adding further protection.
A yacht that was wrecked off Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane. Henrietta Marie England: 1700 A slave ship sunk off Florida Keys. Herrera Spain: 1733 A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. Isaac Allerton United States: 28 August 1856 A merchant ship that sank in a hurricane off the Saddlebunch ...
Florida Lighthouse Page - Rebecca Shoal Lighthouse History - retrieved January 31, 2006; Lighthouse Digest - Mystery of the Lighthouse at Key Largo - retrieved January 31, 2006 "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Florida". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office. Archived from the original on 2017-05-01
View of Hawk Channel from Marathon or Islamorada at sunset. Hawk Channel is a shallow, elongated basin and navigable passage along the Atlantic coast of the Florida Keys.The channel makes up a smaller portion of the Florida Platform from Key West to the southernmost point of Key Biscayne and lies between the Keys and the Florida Reef Tract to the southeast. [1]
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Indian Key Historic State Park is an island within the Florida State Park system, located just a few hundred yards southeast of U.S. 1 within the Florida Keys off the Hawk Channel passage. The island was home to the town of Indian Key, Florida, in the middle of the 19th century but is now an uninhabited ghost town. [2]
Fleming Key is an island off the northwest corner of the island of Key West, Florida in the lower Florida Keys. It is roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) long by 0.25 miles (400 m) wide. It is connected to the island of Key West by the Fleming Key Bridge (Mustin Road), having 18 feet (5.5 m) of clearance over Fleming Key Cut, a small channel. [1]