biscayne

the lighthouse was built as a sort of folly by the honeywells (of thermostat fame) in the late 1930s on a 5-acre island called boca chita key ---


















the foundation is all that's left of the jones house (1912) on porgy key, an african american family who raised key limes, tomatoes, and other crops on the island beginning in the 1890s --- their willingness to sell for creation of the national park was a major turning point --- ken burns touched on it in one of his episodes