Siege at Cape Florida LightThe Cape Florida Lighthouse went through one of the severest ordeals of any lighthouse in the country: an Indian siege. The threat of attack by Seminoles had apparently driven the keeper and his family to take refuge in Key West. He left the assistant keeper, John W. B. Thompson, and an old Negro man to maintain the light.
Late in the afternoon of July 23, 1836, the Seminoles came swooping in on the light station. During a heated battle with the Indians, Thompson, though seriously injured, survived the ordeal.
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