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===Other structures=== Biscayne National Park includes a number of navigational aids, as well as an ornamental structure built to resemble a lighthouse. The [[Fowey Rocks Light]] is a skeleton-frame cast iron structure built in 1878. Already included within the boundaries of the park, the light was acquired by the Park Service on October 2, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Tale Of Two Lighthouses|url=http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2012/10/tale-two-lighthouses10702|publisher=National Parks Traveler|date=October 19, 2012|access-date=November 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020064029/http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/2012/10/tale-two-lighthouses10702|archive-date=2012-10-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> The unmanned [[Unmanned reef lights of the Florida Keys#Pacific Reef Light|Pacific Reef Light]] is about {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} offshore from Elliott Key. The original 1921 structure was replaced in 2000 and its lantern was placed on display in a park in [[Islamorada, Florida|Islamorada]].<ref name=rowlett1>{{cite web|last=Rowlett|first=Russ|title=Unstaffed Offshore Lights of the Florida Keys|url=http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/types/floridakeys.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011031171348/http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/lighthouse/types/floridakeys.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 31, 2001|publisher=University of North Carolina|access-date=11 January 2013|date=September 22, 2012}}</ref> Industrialist [[Mark C. Honeywell]] was a Cocolobo Club member who bought [[Boca Chita Key]] in 1937, expanding the facilities to include a small lighthouse.<ref>Shumaker, pp. 59β60</ref> Boca Chita Key was developed with several structures including an imitation lighthouse, built using coral rock and topped with a wire cage resembling a lighthouse lantern, and the end of a jetty on the north side of the key. The key was owned by Honeywell until 1945.<ref name=lighthousedigest1>{{cite journal|title=Boca Chita Key is home to the little lighthouse that isn't|journal=Lighthouse Digest|date=August 1996|url=http://www.lighthousedigest.com/digest/Storypage.cfm?storykey=140}}</ref> Mark and Olive Honeywell also built a chapel, a guesthouse, seawalls and utility buildings on the island.<ref name=npca29>NPCA, p. 29</ref> The Boca Chita Key structures are administered as a cultural landscape, interpreting the area's use as a retreat for the rich. More modest homesteads include the now-abandoned [[Jones Family Historic District|plantations developed by Israel Jones]] and his sons, and the [[Sweeting Homestead]] on Elliott Key. The frame structures associated with these plantations, together with those of the Cocolobo Cay Club and frame buildings on Boca Chita Key, have been destroyed by fire and hurricanes.<ref name=draftgmp151>NPS, ''Draft General Management Plan'', p. 151</ref>
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