Depot Key is Atsena Otie Key, Florida, Today-- Part 1: Second Seminole War

From Wikipedia.

In the last post I mentioned the Union attack on Confederate salt works at Depot Key in Florida.  Depot Key is now Atsena Otie Key and a part of the Cedar Keys area on the Gulf of Mexico southwest of Gainesville, near the state's panhandle in Levy County.  Population in 2010 was 702.

It is in a cluster of islands referred to as the Cedar Keys, the most developed one of which is Way Key.

It's being called Depot Key dates to the Second Seminole War.  During it, the U.S. Army established Fort No. 4 on the mainland by the Cedar Keys.  In 1840, General Zachary Taylor, commander of American troops in the war, requested that the Cedar Keys be reserved for military use for the duration of the war and that Seahorse Key permanently be reserved for a lighthouse.

--B-Runner