Florida's Abandoned Island Fort

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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 (6.5 ha). 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 (109 km) west of the island of Key West. The Dry Tortugas are part of Monroe County, Florida, United States.

Chapters:
00:59 - Why Florida needed a military Fort
03:02 - How Fort Jefferson would have been America’s most crucial fort
04:07 - The construction of Fort Jefferson
05:23 - Fort Jefferson lighthouse
05:59 - Why Bricks from New York don’t work in Florida
07:07 - Construction delays in Fort Jefferson
08:23 - Why the Leadership of Fort Jefferson couldn’t change
09:49 - Fort Jefferson was overbudget
10:27 - Fort Jefferson during the civil war
12:23 - The downfall of Fort Jefferson
14:24 - Why Fort Jefferson was a failure

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