19th century hospital, graves found under water off Florida Keys
Archeologists discovered the remains of a 19th century quarantine hospital and cemetery in the waters off the Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys.
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Archeologists discovered the remains of a 19th century quarantine hospital and cemetery in the waters off the Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys.
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Dry Tortugas National Park officials have recently made one of their most significant archeological finds in recent decades.
The gravestone found in the water belonged to a man named John Greer, a laborer at the fort who died Nov. 5, 1861.
The wreckage of a small quarantine hospital and the surrounding graves were found on a submerged island off Dry Tortugas National Park on Garden Key.