Military
Fort Jefferson rises on a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, where U.S. Army Corps of Engineers faced shifting sands, hurricanes, severe heat, lack of fresh water, and distant supply sources during its construction in the 1800s. Though never completed and never fired upon, the fort incorporated the latest military technology of its day and successfully served as a U.S. defensive bulwark in the Gulf of Mexico.
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