Garden Key: Cultural Landscape Report, Dry Tortugas National Park, National Park Service
Byrd BW and Hitchcock S. 2011. Garden Key: Cultural Landscape Report, Dry Tortugas National Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. 364/116644. Southeast Regional office, National Park Service. Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service
Garden Key is one of seven keys that make up the Dry Tortugas National Park. It is also the site of Fort Jefferson, the largest brick masonry fortification in federal ownership. Fort Jefferson was designed and constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This cultural landscape report (CLR) documents the physical development of Garden Key beginning with the construction of Fort Jefferson in 1846 through 2009. The existing conditions of the park are also documented, and the park’s historic conditions and existing conditions are evaluated for historical significance and integrity. This includes an evaluation of Garden Key’s historic and contemporary landscape characteristics, such as changes in spatial organization, circulation, and vegetation. With an understanding of the historic fabric, character-defining features of the cultural landscape are identified. The CLR finds that the cultural landscape at Garden Key retains three of the seven aspects of integrity: location, feeling, and association. The CLR then presents treatment issues and recommendations to direct the active management of the cultural landscape. The primary treatment for the cultural landscape at Garden Key is preservation. Restoration was also applied to selected features, such as the restoration of historic vegetation, the central garden space, pathways on the parade ground, and cannon and gun mounts on the terreplein. This CLR provides the documentation needed to return portions of the Garden Key cultural landscape to a more historically accurate appearance.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Byrd, Beth; Hitchcock, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2011
- Publisher
- Southeast Regional office, National Park Service
- Units
- DRTO
- Keywords
- Army Corps of Engineers, Atlantic Ocean, Brick Masonry, Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Cultural Landscape, Dry Tortugas, Florida, Fort Jefferson, Fortification, Fortification System, Garden Key, Gulf Of Mexico, James Madison, Key West, Military Juan Pone de Léon, Mission 66, Report, Shoreline Defense, Third System, United States Army
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 550018: Fort Jefferson Landscape , CRIS-CL: 550019: Loggerhead Key Lighthouse Landscape