“This intriguing find highlights the potential for untold stories in Dry Tortugas National Park, both above and below the water,” Josh Marano, maritime archaeologist for the South Florida national parks and project director for the survey, said.
Archaeologists have found a submerged gravestone in Dry Tortugas National Park near the Florida Keys, and they say the discovery could also mean there’s a cemetery and hospital in the area.
“This intriguing find highlights the potential for untold stories in Dry Tortugas National Park, both above and below the water,” Josh Marano, maritime archaeologist for the South Florida national parks and project director for the survey, said in a statement. The site was discovered by accident months earlier when a park worker flew over shallow water in an airplane and saw something man-made in the shallow water below, said Allyson Gantt, a park ranger and spokesperson for Dry Tortugas National Park.The Park Service released its findings this week.
Doctors at the time took advantage of the isolated islands surrounding Garden Key and used them as quarantine hospitals for the infected. Between hurricanes, erosion and climate change, some of these islands are now under water. That also meant that the population at the fort and surrounding islands swelled with soldiers, prisoners, enslaved people, engineers and support staff, as well as their families. This increased the risk of the spread of disease, especially yellow fever. Dozens died from the disease throughout the 1860s and ‘70s.
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