The National Park Service has reopened Dry Tortugas National Park (above) and Fort Jefferson. The National Park Service has reopened Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson. The park service had ...

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Like a mirage, the park appeared, a small series of islets surrounded by glittering, aquamarine seawater, with its main attraction--the Civil War-era Fort Jefferson--sitting squat in the middle of ...

Dry Tortugas National Park is working to unfold and share stories of Fort Jefferson soldiers, enslaved people, women, children and civilian laborers. Researchers at the Dry Tortugas National Park ...

Aerial view of Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida Mia2you Shutterstock For folks who love immersing themselves in the beauty and extravagance of nature, taking a trip to a ...

This image courtesy of the National Park Service shows University of Miami graduate student Devon Fogarty examining the headstone of John Greer, which was found underwater by archeologists during a ...

Researchers at the Dry Tortugas National Park found a 19th-century hospital and cemetery underwater. The archaeological remains were located near an island adjacent to Garden Key, Florida. The ...

DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) — Archeologists have found the remains of a 19th century quarantine hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in Florida’s Dry Tortugas National Park in the ...