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Content Keys
Geographic Location
Located in Florida Bay, seven miles due north of
Summerland Key.
Reference
The 1861 Bache Coast Survey shows Content Keys.
So named on an 1873 survey map drawn by Charles
Smith.
So named on the map published in Charles Tory
Simpson's "In Lower Florida Wilds" (1920).
Formerly inhabited.
Scope Note
The ruins of cisterns and building foundations may
be seen on the largest of these keys. There is
also said to be evidence of Indian habitation
here.
An article in the July, 1975 issue of Treasure
magazine features Content Key, and states that
gold bars and coins were found here in 1973.
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