TORTUGAS ROCK from www d c videos Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 2 min 35 sec
✓ Published: 14-Jul-2016

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On a remote island hours away from Key West lies the largest masonry structure in the Americas: Fort Jefferson. Built with 16 million bricks, but never finished, the fort served as a prison during Civil War. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, upon visiting the island, named it a National Monument, and in 1992 it became part of Dry Tortugas National Park. nnBesides serving as a safe haven for the most preserved coral reef in the United States, the set of islands that comprise the national