Question: What 1929 structure in the Lower Keys was built to attract insect-eating bats?
Answer: The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower
While much of America was dealing with bank failures and the Great Depression, Richter Perky faced the problem of mosquitoes. Perky was the largest landowner in the Keys in the late 1920s, and his pet project was located at mile marker 17—the town of Perky. After reading a book about bat roosts in Texas to house the mosquito-eating mammals, Perky had the bat tower built.
