 Elliott Key is the northernmost of the true Florida Keys (those 'keys' which are ancient coral reefs lifted above the present sea level), and the largest key north of Key Largo (island). It is located entirely within Biscayne National Park, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, east of Homestead, Florida. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Biscayne Bay to the west, Sands Key (across Sands Cut) to the north and Boca Chita Key (across Caesar Creek) to the south. Adams Key is just west of the southern end of Elliott Key. Elliott Key is about seven mile long. Its maximum width is about 2,500 feet near the north end and its average width is less than 2,000 feet. The higher elevations on the island range from 6 to 8 feet above sea level and occur generally along an unimproved road that runs longitudinally through the center of the island. The average elevation is about 3 feet above sea level. The key is accessible only by boat. Elliot Key has a National Park Service campground, but is otherwise uninhabited. Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys is an archipelago or cluster of about 1700 islands in the extreme southeast of the United States. ...
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Key Largo is an island in the Florida Keys archipelago and one of the largest of its islands. ...
Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead, FL. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States. ...
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Homestead is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA nestled between Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park. ...
Biscayne Bay separates Miami on the mainland from Miami Beach on the barrier islands of the Atlantic Ocean coast of Florida. ...
The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ...
History
Elliott Key was used on a transient basis for millenia by Tequesta Indians, and later by fishermen and wreckers from the Bahamas and the lower Florida Keys. There are legends of Elliott Key and adjacent keys being used as a refuge by pirates and escaped slaves. The chief pirate of legend is Black Caesar, who is said to have escaped from a slave ship, and used Elliott Key as his base. The key was inhabited and the site of pineapple plantations in the latter part of the 19th Century and the first half of the 20th Century. In 1910 there were more than a dozen families raising pineapples on Elliott Key where an average crop was 50,000 to 75,000 dozen fruits, mostly sent by schooner to New York. This page is about the Tequesta Native American tribe. ...
Wrecker has multiple meanings: A person or ship used for hauling away material shipwrecks. ...
A pirate digging…perhaps to bury treasure, perhaps a grave. ...
The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ...
The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ...
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In the 1950s it was proposed to build a causeway (across the Safety Valve) and highway from Key Biscayne to Key Largo, connecting Elliott Key and other keys to the mainland and the rest of the Florida Keys. This led to the incorporation of the city of Islandia, Florida, encompassing the keys north of Key Largo up to the Ragged Keys. In anticipation of the highway, and to forestall designation of the northernmost keys as a park, developers cleared most of the land on Elliott Key and dredged channels around it. With the establishment of the Biscayne National Monument in 1968 and purchase of private property in the park by the Federal government, development of the highway and of Elliott Key was halted. Map of Key Biscayne Key Biscayne is a village located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ...
Key Largo may mean the following: The island in the Florida Keys, see Key Largo (island) The city on that island, see Key Largo, Florida The play Key Largo written in blank verse by Maxwell Anderson The 1948 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, based on the...
Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys is an archipelago or cluster of about 1700 islands in the extreme southeast of the United States. ...
Islandia is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida. ...
Biscayne National Park is a U.S. National Park located in southern Florida, due east of Homestead, FL. The park preserves Biscayne Bay, one of the top scuba diving areas in the United States. ...
References - Preliminary Evaluation of Availability of Potable Water on Elliott Key, Dade County, Florida, U.S. Department of the Interior, US Geological Survey report. - accessed December 3, 2005
- Information on Biscayne National Park, including sections on History and Pirates - accessed December 3, 2005
- Pinapple, from Fruits of warm climates, by Julia F. Morton - accessed December 3, 2005
- Marston, Red. 1981. Cruising Florida. (pp: 159-161) Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
- History of the Overseas Highway by Jerry Wilkinson - accessed December 4, 2005
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