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Pigeon Key and the Seven Mile Bridge - Dan Gallagher
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Pigeon Key and the Seven Mile Bridge – Dan Gallagher
Pigeon Key, a small island in the widest water passage of the Florida Keys, lies two miles to the west of the town of Marathon. During the brief period from 1908 - 1912, the island served as a work camp for the building of the "Eighth Wonder of the World" - the magnificent Seven-Mile Bridge. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, Pigeon Key has been a home for several generations of workers. This is the story of the first crew -- the men who built the Seven-Mile Bridge. It is also a story of the construction of the remarkable Bridge - a massive ribbon of steel and concrete that forever changed the history of the Florida Keys.
Featured in so many Hollywood films (True Lies for one) this is a brilliant account of the making of a truly iconic structure.