September 24, 2009 Help Us Make Americas Best Idea Even Better! Help Us Make America’s Best Idea Even Better!
Join Dry Tortugas National Park on September 26 for a Day of Service and Celebration
July 21, 2009 Garden Key Harbor Light Stamp Dedication Superintendent Kimball to speak at Stamp Dedication Ceremony
Commemorating the Dry Tortugas Garden Key Harbor Light
June 15, 2009 Fee Free Weekends This Summer America’s Best Idea – the national parks – gets even better this summer…it’s free!
Did You Know?
Fort Jefferson served for a time as a remote prison facility. One of its most famous inmates was none other than Dr. Samuel Mudd, who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth following the assassination of President Lincoln. Mudd was incarcerated on the Dry Tortugas for only four years, from 1865 to 1869.