The Tribal Historic Preservation Office of The Seminole Tribe of Florida recently published a detailed history of Egmont Key and The Seminole: https://www.semtribe.com/stof/docs/default-source/default-document-library/egmont-key---a-seminole-story.pdf
"Since European contact, Egmont Key has played a role in nearly every major U.S. historical period. In the 1800s, the U.S. Army used Egmont Key to imprison Seminole captives, and historians have described conditions on the island as a concentration camp. Over the last decade, the Seminole Tribe of Florida has launched a robust investigation into this period of Seminole removal to piece together and better understand this little-known chapter. But the window to document that history is quickly closing." - From, ISLAND IMPERMANENT Part I: Erosion and Erasure on Egmont Key: https://themarjorie.org/2022/10/03/erosion-and-erasure-on-egmont-key/
Egmont Key National Wildlife Refuge is now open, though all structures in or near the lighthouse area and within the private property of the Pilots Compound remain off limits. Significant damage remains from recent hurricanes, please exercise caution while visiting the refuge and obey all posted warnings and direction by Service staff and Law Enforcement Officers.
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