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 found a 19th century hospital and cemetery underwater. The archaeological remains were located near an island adjacent to Garden Key, Florida.
The National Park Service says the islands and waters surrounding Fort Jefferson were mostly known for a military prison during the Civil War. But, as the population there increased, so did the risk of disease. Quarantine hospitals, like the one found underwater, were built on several islands near Garden Key. Many patients there were treated for yellow fever between 1890 and 1900.
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