Windley Key

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title: "Windley Key" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["islands-of-the-florida-keys", "islands-of-monroe-county,-florida", "islamorada,-florida", "islands-of-florida"] description: "Island in the upper Florida Keys, United States" topic_path: "society/religion" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windley_Key" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Island in the upper Florida Keys, United States ::

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Field	Value
name	Windley Key
sobriquet
image_name	Windley Key sign.jpg
image_caption	The sign at the front entrance to Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park
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pushpin_relief	1
pushpin_map_caption	Windley Key
coordinates
location	Gulf of Mexico
grid_reference
country
country_admin_divisions_title	State
country_admin_divisions	Florida
country_admin_divisions_title_1	County
country_admin_divisions_1	Monroe
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The key is home to Theater of the Sea, a popular tourist attraction since 1946. It also contains a Florida State Park Service geological site, and the popular Holiday Isle resort.

History

Prior to the building of the Overseas Railroad, the site consisted of two separate islands known as the Umbrella Keys. Railway construction required the intervening space to be filled; it then became known as Windley Key, after an early settler. Several quarries operated there for many years, supplying building stone locally known as "keystone". The railway station on Windley Key was called Quarry. The island was badly damaged during the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane.

References

References

1. "Google Maps".
2. [http://keyshistory.org/windleykey.html History of Windley Key]

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