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Pumpkin Key (I)
Geographic Location
Located in Card Sound, just off the bayshore of
Key Largo.
Reference
So named in the log of the U.S. Revenue Cutter
Campbell for Feb 6, 1832.
So named in the Gerdes survey (1849).
Scope Note
A U.S. Army report written In 1857 by Capt. Abner
Doubleday (of baseball legend) during the 3rd
Seminole War uses this name.
Visited in 1908 by ornithologist Frank M. Chapman.