Like a mirage, the park appeared, a small series of islets surrounded by glittering, aquamarine seawater, with its main attraction--the Civil War-era Fort Jefferson--sitting squat in the middle of ...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. A race is on to study historical sites at Dry ...

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

Dry Tortugas National Park is working to unfold and share stories of Fort Jefferson soldiers, enslaved people, women, children and civilian laborers. Researchers at the Dry Tortugas National Park ...

By Carl Juste As hundreds of migrants from Cuba have landed in the Florida Keys in recent days, many wound up in Dry Tortugas National Park — comprised of remote islands 70 miles west of Key West and ...

The National Park Service has reopened Dry Tortugas National Park (above) and Fort Jefferson. The National Park Service has reopened Dry Tortugas National Park and Fort Jefferson. The park service had ...

After a 2 1/2-hour boat ride, it finally comes into focus: an enormous fort in the Gulf of Mexico that seems to rise up out of the water. Beneath it: a tiny island known as the Dry Tortugas. Kristen ...

This image courtesy of the National Park Service shows University of Miami graduate student Devon Fogarty examining the headstone of John Greer, which was found underwater by archeologists during a ...

Researchers at the Dry Tortugas National Park found a 19th-century hospital and cemetery underwater. The archaeological remains were located near an island adjacent to Garden Key, Florida. The ...

DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...