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Fort Jefferson is a massive but unfinished coastal
fortress. It is the
largest brick masonry structure in the Americas and is composed of
over 16 million bricks*. The building covers 16 acres. Among United States
forts, only Fort Monroe in Virginia and Fort Adams in Rhode Island are
larger. The fort is located on Garden Key in the lower Florida Keys within
the Dry Tortugas National Park, 68 miles west of the island of Key West. The
Dry Tortugas are part of Monroe County, Florida.
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*That’s a lot of
bricks. The Big Stack (see post dated January 12, 2018) has 2,464,652 bricks. (JKS)
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FORT JEFFERSON, DRY TORTUGAS
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