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    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...
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  • Fort Jefferson may refer to: Fort Jefferson (Florida) Fort Jefferson National Monument, now Dry Tortugas National Park Fort Jefferson (Ohio), a historic...
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    States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys. The archipelago's...
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    Jefferson County is a county located in the Big Bend region in the northern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was...
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    The Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, also known simply as Fort Taylor, is a Florida State Park and National Historic Landmark centered on a Civil...
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  • historical forts in the U.S. state of Florida. De Quesada states that there have been more than 300 "camps, batteries, forts and redoubts" in Florida, since...
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    1869. Fort Jefferson, Florida, USA Fort Marion, Florida, U.S. Île Saint-Honorat, France Île Sainte-Marguerite, France Hot Shot furnace at Fort McAllister...
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    This is a list of casinos in Florida. Jefferson County Kennel Club Florida portal List of casinos in the United States List of casino hotels Wikimedia...
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    Dry Tortugas Light (category Lighthouses in Monroe County, Florida)
    is a lighthouse located on Loggerhead Key, three miles west of Fort Jefferson, Florida. It was taken out of operation in 2015. It has also been called...
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    imprisoned in Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas off Key West, Florida. In August 1867, there was an outbreak of yellow fever at Fort Jefferson. Dr. Mudd...
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    the war, the others being Fort Taylor at Key West, Florida, Fort Jefferson at Garden Key, Florida in the Dry Tortugas, and Fort Monroe in Virginia. Captives...
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  • Fort Drum a U.S. Army military reservation and a census-designated place in Jefferson County, New York, United States Fort Drum may also refer to: Fort...
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    The Dry Tortugas Ferry to Fort Jefferson is a visitor attraction in Key West, Florida. Service is provided by the Yankee Freedom III, a high-speed Incat-designed...
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    and Jefferson counties in northern Florida of the Southeastern United States The cultural transformation from Late Fort Walton to Early Leon-Jefferson may...
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    Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from...
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    School (2022). Jefferson Davis Middle School in Jacksonville, Florida (1961) Jefferson Davis Middle School in West Palm Beach, Florida. (1906). The school...
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    Holder, while stationed at Fort Jefferson, Florida Reid, Thomas (2006). America's Fortress. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. p. 48. ISBN 9780813030197...
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    Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as...
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    Fort Jefferson, and Fort Pickens for the duration of the conflict. The Confederate strategy was to defend the vital farms in the interior of Florida at...
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    the firsts settlements in Florida, but it was mostly abandoned by 1561. In 1564–1565, there was a French settlement at Fort Caroline, in present Duval...
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    acquisition of Jefferson-Pilot Corporation in March 2006, Lincoln Financial acquired group life, disability, and dental insurance divisions. Jefferson-Pilot Corporation...
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  • Pennsylvania Jefferson County, Alabama Jefferson County, Arkansas Jefferson County, Colorado Jefferson County, Florida Jefferson County, Iowa Jefferson County...
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    Lincoln's assassins, used it during his attempted escape from Fort Jefferson, Florida. Interested in education and health, Scott endowed certain positions...
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    Then to Key West, Florida, February 1864, and garrison duty at Fort Jefferson, Florida until August 1865. Attack on Fort Myers, Florida, February 20, 1865...
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  • Coral North Fort Myers High School, North Fort Myers Riverdale High School, Fort Myers South Fort Myers High School, Fort Myers Florida SouthWestern...
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    hundred settled in southwest Florida, where they were allowed to remain in an uneasy truce. Tensions over the growth of nearby Fort Myers led to renewed hostilities...
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    Thomas Jefferson served as the third president of the United States from March 4, 1801, to March 4, 1809. Jefferson assumed the office after defeating...
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    Garden Key Light (category Lighthouses in Monroe County, Florida)
    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...
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    its name to the Florida Fort Lauderdale Mission. Three additional missions has been created in Florida since then. The state of Florida has five temples...
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    Visit Florida, the state's official tourism marketing corporation, uses varying definitions of the region, including just four counties, Jefferson, Taylor...
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