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2. Overseas Railroad - Wikipedia

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   In 1929, the Havana Special was the premier train, providing year-round coach and sleeping car service between New York and Key West, daily except Sundays, with connecting ferry service beyond to the Cuban capital. With speed restricted to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) on the long bridges, it took a leisurely four and a half hours to travel the ...

3. Key West National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   The Key West National Wildlife Refuge is a 189,497 acre (766.867 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located in Monroe County, Florida, between Key West, Florida and the Dry Tortugas. Only 2,019 acres (8.171 km 2 ) of land are above sea level, on several keys within the refuge.

4. You’ll have to get wet to make the most out of Dry Tortugas ...

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   A visitor snorkels off Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park in March 2006. ... Dry Tortugas National Park lies roughly 70 miles west of Key West. ... Visitors tour Fort Jefferson at Dry ...

5. Marquesas Keys - Wikipedia

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   Only the Dry Tortugas are farther west, 36 miles (58 km) west of the Marquesas Keys. The central lagoon is called Mooney Harbor. The northernmost key is the largest and has a strip of sandy beach free of mangrove. In the past it was known as "Entrance Key". It surrounds the lagoon in the north and east.

6. Dry Tortugas National Park - Wikipedia

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   Dry Tortugas National Park is a national park of the United States located about 68 miles (109 km) west of Key West in the Gulf of Mexico, in the United States. The park preserves Fort Jefferson and the several Dry Tortugas islands, the westernmost and most isolated of the Florida Keys .

7. Conch Republic - Wikipedia

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   During the U.S. federal government shutdown of 1995 and 1996, as a protest, the republic sent a flotilla of Conch Navy, civilian, and fire department boats to Fort Jefferson, located in Dry Tortugas National Park, to reopen it. The action was dubbed a "full-scale invasion" by the Conch Republic.

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9. Long Live the Conch Republic - AOL

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