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Underwater Cemetery Found Off Florida's Dry Tortugas National Park
NBC ^ | 5-2-23 | unattributed

Posted on 05/02/2023 3:53:09 PM PDT by dynachrome

Archeologists have found the remains of a 19th century quarantine hospital and cemetery on a submerged island in Florida's Dry Tortugas National Park in the Gulf of Mexico.

While only one grave has been identified, historical records indicate dozens of people — mostly U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Jefferson — may have been buried at the site in waters west of Key West, Florida, park officials said in a news release Monday.

A group that included park cultural resources staff, the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center, the Southeast Archeological Center, and a University of Miami graduate student, made the discovery during a survey of Fort Jefferson Post Cemetery that began last August.

They discovered the grave of John Greer, a laborer who died on Nov. 5, 1861. Officials said they don't know much about Greer, but his grave was prominently marked with a large slab of greywacke, the same material used to construct the first floor of Fort Jefferson.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnewyork.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 18611105; cemetary; cemetery; drytortugas; florida; fortjefferson; godsgravesglyphs; greywacke; gulfofmexico; hospital; johngreer; keywest; quarantinehospital; tortugas; turtles
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A little bit of history.
1 posted on 05/02/2023 3:53:09 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


2 posted on 05/02/2023 3:53:26 PM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: dynachrome

Bookmark


3 posted on 05/02/2023 3:54:59 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: dynachrome

Why did they put a cemetery under water? Wouldn’t it be hard to dig graves there?


4 posted on 05/02/2023 3:55:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c0CjJINvAs


5 posted on 05/02/2023 3:59:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Silt and muddy waters were the main problem said a scuba diver assigned to grave detail. And the bodies kept wanting to float up so they had to weigh them down. Yeah, there seems like there would be an easier way but you know the US government. If they were in charge of the Sahara desert, they’d run out of sand.


6 posted on 05/02/2023 4:00:48 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Key West, and much of south Florida is coral. Digging is difficult.


7 posted on 05/02/2023 4:01:18 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: dynachrome

How did an island get so far underwater? NOT a climate crazy here, but it does have one wondering how it sank to where one must use breathing apparatus to study.


8 posted on 05/02/2023 4:02:53 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: BenLurkin

lol, funny


9 posted on 05/02/2023 4:04:03 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: dynachrome

10 posted on 05/02/2023 4:04:09 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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11 posted on 05/02/2023 4:08:00 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: BipolarBob

LOL...nice.


12 posted on 05/02/2023 4:08:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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“Although much of the history of Fort Jefferson focuses on the fortification itself and some of its infamous prisoners, we are actively working to tell the stories of the enslaved people, women, children and civilian laborers,” Marano said.

Yeah, because woke overcomes actual history.

You can tell this is being led by academics...

13 posted on 05/02/2023 4:08:47 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: dynachrome

Fort Jefferson is where Samuel Mudd, Edmund Spangler, Samuel Arnold and Michael O’Laughlen were imprisoned after their conviction for their roles in the Lincoln conspiracy. O’Laughlen died of yellow fever there. Samuel Mudd saved many of the sick acting as a doctor for the prisoners.

BUT...

Let’s talk about woke instead...


14 posted on 05/02/2023 4:12:25 PM PDT by Magnatron
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Underwater cemetery? Well the salesman promised it was in the Dry Tortugas. I should have visited it myself instead of taking his word.

Reminds me of my favorite Alan Swann movie, Captain from Tortuga.

15 posted on 05/02/2023 4:19:52 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzGUNwq6Ek4


16 posted on 05/02/2023 4:21:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: dynachrome
Welcome to Dry Tortugas National Park
Dry Tortugas National Park
17 posted on 05/02/2023 4:24:51 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The island next to Fort Jefferson, Loggerhead Key where we did coast guard duty several years ago was constantly changing form from one year to the next. It would lose real estate and or gain it due to the terrific winds and erosion that blow thru there. These islands are sitting out there in the water totally unprotected.


18 posted on 05/02/2023 4:44:04 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: dynachrome
Thanks dynachrome.
[singing] you put your left fin in, you pull your left fin out...

19 posted on 05/02/2023 4:53:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Quakes are not unheard of down there. Port Royal in Jamaica now rests under the bay which it served, as a result of subsidence after a major quake. .


20 posted on 05/02/2023 5:38:33 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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