INDIAN KEY HISTORIC STATE PARK Ghost Town — Islamorada, Florida Status: Historic site · Access: Restricted access Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/indian-key-historic-state-park-florida/ Island ruins preserve an early nineteenth-century salvage settlement. A ghost town in Islamorada, Florida, Indian Key Historic State Park is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Island ruins preserve an early nineteenth-century salvage settlement. The archive files it under ghost towns, massacres and maritime history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 2 documented facts, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. Access is restricted, and the file says so plainly. Indian Key was the Keys' first county seat — a wrecking-salvage settlement of the 1820s-30s, a town on an island where salvaged shipwreck cargo made the residents rich and Dr. Henry Perrine cultivated his tropical plants. In August 1840, Seminole warriors attacked the island, killing Perrine and others — the town never recovered, its ruins now a state park. The file's documented spine is the double arc: a salvage town's rise on shipwrecks and its end in a single raid, the island going from county seat to ruins in the war's violence. THE ISLAND'S PRESENCE Local lore describes a sense of presence and lights on the island at night — retold in Keys collections, the file's haunting being the dead town's own: presences on the island where the town was killed, the ruins reportedly still lit after dark. The lights are the file's signature — a town that died in one night reportedly still showing lights, the island's dead keeping the lamps the raid extinguished. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS Indian Key is the archive's raided-town file — a Keys island that was a county seat until the 1840 attack emptied it, keeping a presence and lights in the ruins. The documented massacre is the record; the island's lights are the lore. A town that died in a raid keeps its lights on — the file's suggestion being that Indian Key's night still belongs to the town the Seminoles ended. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Local folklore] haunting: Local lore describes a sense of presence and lights on the island at night—retold in Keys collections. The account has been recorded since 20th century. Indian Key Historic State Park, Florida is the kind of town where the dead outnumber the residents — the reports just make the census official. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history. source: Koreshan State Park (https://www.floridastateparks.org) HISTORY — 2 documented facts · Island ruins preserve an early nineteenth-century salvage settlement. The town's documented rise and abandonment is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Indian Key Historic State Park'. The date is part of the site's documented spine. · [1840-08-07] In August 1840, Seminole warriors attacked the island, killing Dr. Henry Perrine and others; the town never recovered. The record dates it to 1840-08-07. Indian Key Historic State Park's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Koreshan State Park'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it. SOURCES — 2 cited · Indian Key Historic State Park — Florida State Parks https://www.floridastateparks.org/IndianKey · Koreshan State Park — Florida State Parks https://www.floridastateparks.org — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/