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Garden Key Light

Lighthouse · Monroe County, Florida

Dry Tortugas National Park, the Garden Key Light and a Columbiad gun at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA
Dry Tortugas National Park, the Garden Key Light and a Columbiad gun at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, USA · Acroterion / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Garden Key Light is a lighthouse in Monroe County, Florida. Florida has 49 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow, 7 of them in Monroe County.

It was deactivated in 1924; the structure is built of cast iron.

Status check, 2026-11: A boilerplate-iron hexagonal tower on top of Fort Jefferson replaced the 1826 brick tower after the 1873 hurricane and was deactivated in 1924. Sources give 1876 or 1877 as the build year and 37, 70 or 82 ft as the height. It stands at 24.6281° N, 82.8722° W.

Key facts

Deactivated1924
Materialcast iron
Coordinates24.62806, -82.87222

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Questions

Where is Garden Key Light?

Garden Key Light is in Monroe County, Florida, at 24.6281, -82.8722.

How many lighthouses are in Monroe County?

Monroe County, Florida has 7 lighthouses on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.