Ballast Key

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Ballast Key

Florida Straits
Administration
United States
State	Florida
County	Monroe

Ballast Key is an island in the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is the southernmost point of land in the contiguous United States. It was the last privately owned land within the boundaries of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge.^[1]

Located in the Outlying Islands of the Florida Keys, it is one of the

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Tennessee Williams often painted canvases while visiting David Wolkowsky on Ballast Key in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Ballast Key features a main house with four bedrooms and a master suite, and a fully equipped three-bedroom guesthouse overlooking a palm tree-lined sand beach. Water is supplied to the homes by desalination.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Driscoll, Amy (2019-04-19). "Key West's Wolkowsky donates island for environmental preservation". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2019-08-03.

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1. ^ "David Wolkowsky's Ballast Key".