View of the Cedar Keys Lighthouse on Seahorse Key - In the first half of the 1800s, it was used as a hospital and detention center during the Second Seminole War. From July 1841 until December 1842, Seahorse Key was the site of Cantonment Morgan, a temporary encampment utilized as a staging area for the receiving, processing, and deploying of troops; a hospital for both military troops and Seminole Indians; and an internment camp for captured Indians waiting to be shipped west.
