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Key West is a city, seat of Monroe County, southern Florida, a port of entry around the island of Key West, at the southwestern end of the Florida Keys; incorporated 1828. The southernmost city of the conterminous United States, it is connected to the mainland by the Overseas Highway. The city's economy revolves around tourism, commercial fishing, and U.S. Navy and Coast Guard installations, and also a famous artists' colony is right here. One of the points of interest in Key West, the seat of a junior college, are the homes of the naturalist John J. Audubon and the writer Ernest Hemingway, a lighthouse (1846), along with a tropical fish aquarium. Called Cayo Hueso ("island of bones") through Spanish explorers, who discovered human bones here, it's been a significant U.S. port since the early 1820s. Key West was in Union hands throughout the American Civil War.