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If these runaways could successfully make their way south to Florida, they would be welcomed in either St. Augustine proper or, later, at nearby Fort Mose, the first free black settlement in the future United States.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/116-1.jpgFort PickensDuring the Endicott Period, the casemates of Fort Pickens were retrofitted to support a submerged mine system that could seal Pensacola Pass on short notice. Such systems became integral to coastal defense during the era of ironclads and armored cruisers.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/071.jpgWest Martello TowerA modern gazebo stands amidst the meticulously manicured ruins of the West Martello Tower, home of the Key West Garden Club since 1955. It is the clearest manifestation of the fort’s transformation from implement of war into a monument for peace and harmony.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/070.jpgFort JeffersonFrom the window of a DHC-3 Otter seaplane, Fort Jefferson seems to inhabit the exact middle of nowhere. In actuality, it commands a 75-mile-wide strait linking the Gulf and the Atlantic Ocean. Scores of shipwrecks dot the reefs and the vast shallows on either side of the strait.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/049.jpgFort JeffersonThe open casemates of Fort Jefferson's northeastern wall recede into the afternoon sunlight. Each archway delineates a distinct firing position. Had an enemy ship ever approached—and had the fort ever been armed to its full potential—this design would have allowed 125 guns to zero on any given target all at once.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/046.jpgFort JeffersonVisitors to the Dry Tortugas arrive by ferry, seaplane, or private vessel. Two of these sightseers stand atop the northwest bastion of Fort Jefferson (1846), fifty feet above the Gulf of Mexico on the fort’s open upper level, known as the barbette tier.https://thomaskenning.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/043.jpgFort DadeThese hulking structures—the cable tank and mine storehouses (1908)—once supplemented the mining operation at the north end of Egmont Key. 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