Front:
KEY WEST,
Fla,
Coaling Station
and Lighthouse
Department.
Back:
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 2470, "Key West, Fla."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
U.S. COALING STATION AND LIGHTHOUSE
DEPARTMENT. The U.S. Coaling Station was established
before the Civil War.
The original brick structure, costing
about $50,000, is now occupied by offices and as a warehouse;
other sheds were completed in 1898 and 1899. The total cost
of this part of the navy plant was about $500,000. The office
and depot of the 7th Lighthouse District are located at Key
West, the office in the Custom-house and the depot and buoy
wharf on the water front of the grounds. The district contains
97 lights and 299 buoys.
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