Question: Where in Florida can you find the Coral Castle?
Answer: Homestead
The Coral Castle in Miami-Dade County is one man’s hand-built shrine.
In the early 1900s in Latvia, Edward Leedskalnin, 26, fell in love with 16-year-old Agnes Scuffs. They courted and eventually set a wedding date, but Agnes got cold feet the day before and called it off. Heartbroken, Leedskalnin immigrated to America, settling in Florida City at the southern tip of Florida. He then spent the rest of his life creating a monument to the woman he loved.
Leedskalnin began carving from the coral found under his property’s soil. During the next 28 years, he diligently and secretly sculpted 1,100 tons of coral into an open-air “castle,” a structure that became a shrine to Agnes. In 1936, Leedskalnin moved the castle 10 miles north to Homestead.
