Due to it's location, Egmont Key has been a part of local history as well as Florida history and the history of the United States as it was becoming a world power. It played a part in the Second and Third Seminole Wars, the Spanish American War and World War I.

The island has been home to a lighthouse since 1858 and is in use today as a navigational aid maintained maintained by the U. S. Coast Guard.

The island offers a wide variety of animals from Gopher Tortoises, Loggerhead Sea Turtles to dozens of species of migratory birds and sea birds.

There is a diversity of plant life also including the Strangler Fig various flowering plants, sea oats and sea grasses.

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