Historic Structure Report, Historical Data: Fort Jefferson: 1846-1898
Bearss EC. 1983. Historic Structure Report, Historical Data: Fort Jefferson: 1846-1898. Historic Structure Report. National Park Service, Department of the Interior
Fort Jefferson represents the apogee of mid-nineteenth century military engineering. Schooled and guided by Brigadier General Joseph G. Totten, United States Army Engineers supervised construction of a number of masonry coastal fortifications that brought this form of military architecture to its highest form. Of these, Fort Jefferson was the most extensive and ambitious, and deemed to be the most vital to the Nation’s security. It also escaped modification during the Endicott and Taft periods. The goal of this report is to provide a comprehensive structural history of Fort Jefferson and its dependencies from the mid-1840s through 1916, years when Garden Key and Tortugas Harbor were important elements in the Nation’s defense scheme.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Bearss, Edwin
- Date of Issue
- 1983-07
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Department of the Interior
- Units
- DRTO , HIST , SER
- Keywords
- Administration, Architecture, Civil War, Construction, Cultural Resources, Dry Tortugas Islands, ehistory, Engineering, Florida, Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, History, Quarantine Station, Woodbury
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000320: Fort Jefferson