FORT JEFFERSON NATIONAL MONUMENT
Historic Site — National Park Service, Dry Tortugas, Monroe County, Florida
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/fort-jefferson-national-monument-florida/

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

A historic site in Dry Tortugas, Florida, a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom listing, Fort Jefferson National Monument is filed here for what the record attaches to it. NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad. It sits in the archive under dark history, Underground Railroad history and the Underground Railroad. The dossier holds 2 documented facts — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. The site is open to visitors.

Fort Jefferson National Monument is the record's administrative twin — the Dry Tortugas fortress seen through its federal afterlife. The sixteen-million-brick hexagon seventy miles west of Key West — never finished, never attacked — was designated a national monument by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, when the biggest masonry fort in the hemisphere became a bird-and-brick sanctuary instead of a garrison.
The monument era reframed the fort's meanings — the moat where the walls meet the sea, the lighthouse on the parade, the casemates where Dr. Samuel Mudd served his Lincoln-conspiracy sentence and worked the 1867 yellow fever outbreak that killed the prison's own doctor. The monument's purpose was always double: the fort and the reef — the Dry Tortugas' coral and the sooty tern colonies protected under the same designation.
It became Dry Tortugas National Park in 1992 — the monument name surviving in this dossier's record of the designation era: the fifty-seven years when the fort was a monument rather than a park, and the country kept the brick hexagon as both fortress and bird sanctuary.
Fort Jefferson National Monument is the archive's designation file — the 1935-1992 monument era of the Dry Tortugas fort, when the unfinished fortress of Dr. Mudd's imprisonment was held as both military relic and bird sanctuary.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
This record preserves the monument designation of Fort Jefferson — the 1935 Roosevelt proclamation era before the 1992 park status, when the Dry Tortugas fortress was the nation's largest coastal fort held as a national monument.
A fort kept as a monument holds its casemates — the file's suggestion being that the designation era's hold is the dual mandate: the brick fortress and the reef under it, protected together since 1935.

HISTORY — 2 documented facts
· NPS includes this site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. A documented site gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that record. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01'. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.
· Fort Jefferson National Monument is documented on the National Park Service Network to Freedom for its role in the Underground Railroad. Fort Jefferson National Monument's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer the museum itself interprets. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'NPS Network to Freedom listing'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 3 cited
· Public NPS Network to Freedom listings, row 2, ID 01GA01 — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/sortable_dataset/undergroundrailroad/F0E29766-00A1-12E5-C3D062151C3F7E26/nri-NTFListings6426NOPIItable.csv?t=1784017173223
· NPS Network to Freedom listing — National Park Service
  https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/index.htm
· Underground Railroad — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

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