1828 – The act incorporating the City of Key West was repealed and a new one incorporating the Town of Key West was passed by the...

1901 – The United States dredge boat Winyah Bay competed its work on the northwest channel, and steamers could go through at low tide....

1839 – President Martin Van Buren recognized Joseph Beverly Browne as Consul for Texas at Key West. 1876 – St. James Missionary Baptist...

1897 – Outgoing Mayor James A. Waddell gave the oath of office to Mayor-elect Dr. John B. Maloney, who then administered oaths to the...

1907 – George Patterson took charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau’s Key West station from H.G. Cornthwaite, who went to Northfield, VT. 1910...

1887 – The Marine Hospital reported a yellow fever epidemic in Key West had caused 110 cases with 30 deaths. By the time the fever ended...

1851 – Key West had slowed with the summer season: The Coast Survey vessels charting the reef had left for Washington, D.C., work on the...

1890 – Key Wester Charles Moffat, who had established a store near Miami for the purpose of trading with the Everglades Indians, came to...

1826 – The ship Ellen , sailing from Havana to Philadelphia, went ashore on Carysfort Reef. Wreckers saved the dismasted vessel and...

1917 – Polk’s Key West City Directory for 1917/18 listed 16 coffee shops in the city. 1954 – The Monroe County Commission approved...

1831 – The 230 Irish canal workers rescued from the wreck of the ship Maria at Carysfort Reef, and who had caused much unwanted...

1831 – After “a rather free indulgence of their orisons to Bacchus,” 230 Irish laborers, rescued from the wreck of the ship Maria and...

1862 – Rear-Admiral J.L. Gardiner, Commander of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, ordered the USS Dacotah to cruise an area ranging...

1926 – Monroe County Engineer Joseph Watkins and other officials went to Wood Key off the western Everglades in mainland Monroe to check...

1825 – Solomon Snyder, a New York native, resident of Key Vaca, and Spanish Vice Consul for Florida, died at Indian Key. 1878 – A...

Northwest Channel lighthouse, circa 1970 1774 – It was reported that English surveyor George Gauld had set out from Pensacola in May to...

The lounge in the WAVE barracks at the Army Barracks Key West on June 3, 1945. U.S. Navy Photo from the Wright Langley Collection. 1905...