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Egmont Key & The Seminole

Egmont Key - A Seminole Story

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

A Complicated History

"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/

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