Parade Kicks Off Civil War Heritage Week

The City of Key West will be hosting a parade reenacting an historical march from the 1890s, kicking off Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park’s Annual Civil War Heritage Days event.

The parade begins at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 3^rd. It starts with a memorial service at the historic Clinton Square at the foot of Whitehead Street.

From there, the park anticipates over 100 reenactors to march a route that will take them past the Mel Fisher Museum, down a block of Front to Duval, then up to Southard Street where they will continue until reaching Fort Zachary Taylor.

This will be the 32^nd celebration of Civil War Heritage Week in which visitors to the state park will be greeted by volunteers reenacting the Union soldiers who occupied the fort during the Civil War.