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. The story beings in the early 1900s in the Eastern European country of Latvia, where 26-year-old Edward Leedskalnin 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 the soil of his property. 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, concerned about the growth of Florida City, decided to move the castle 10 miles north to Homestead.
