You've never seen historic Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park like this! Over the past two years Heritage Documentation Programs, NPS, in cooperation with Lord Aeck Sargent (architecture and design firm) and Dry Tortugas National Park, have been documenting Fort Jefferson on Garden Key, off the coast of Florida. SIGNIFICANCE During the first half of the 19th century the United States began a chain of defenses from Maine to Texas. The largest link was Fort Jefferson, a hexagonal structu

An aerial view captures fort jefferson, a historic brick fortress in dry tortugas national park, surrounded by turquoise waters in the florida keys

Dry Tortugas National Park | FORT JEFFERSON