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Nov 8, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – November 9
1828 – The act incorporating the City of Key West was repealed and a new one incorporating the Town of Key West was passed by the...
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Keys History Center
Oct 24, 20241 min read
Today in Keys History – October 25, 2024
1901 – The United States dredge boat Winyah Bay competed its work on the northwest channel, and steamers could go through at low tide....
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Keys History Center
Sep 13, 20241 min read
Today in Keys History – September 14, 2024
1839 – President Martin Van Buren recognized Joseph Beverly Browne as Consul for Texas at Key West. 1876 – St. James Missionary Baptist...
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Keys History Center
Sep 9, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – September 10, 2024
1897 – Outgoing Mayor James A. Waddell gave the oath of office to Mayor-elect Dr. John B. Maloney, who then administered oaths to the...
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Keys History Center
Aug 9, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – August 10, 2024
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...
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Keys History Center
Jul 14, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – July 15, 2024
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...
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Keys History Center
Jul 7, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – July 8, 2024
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...
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Keys History Center
Feb 23, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – February 24, 2024
1890 – Key Wester Charles Moffat, who had established a store near Miami for the purpose of trading with the Everglades Indians, came to...
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Keys History Center
Feb 9, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – February 10, 2024
1826 – The ship Ellen , sailing from Havana to Philadelphia, went ashore on Carysfort Reef. Wreckers saved the dismasted vessel and...
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Keys History Center
Feb 5, 20242 min read
Today in Keys History – February 6, 2024
1917 – Polk’s Key West City Directory for 1917/18 listed 16 coffee shops in the city. 1954 – The Monroe County Commission approved...
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Keys History Center
Dec 5, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – December 6, 2023
1831 – The 230 Irish canal workers rescued from the wreck of the ship Maria at Carysfort Reef, and who had caused much unwanted...
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Keys History Center
Nov 30, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – December 1, 2023
1831 – After “a rather free indulgence of their orisons to Bacchus,” 230 Irish laborers, rescued from the wreck of the ship Maria and...
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Keys History Center
Sep 30, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – October 1, 2023
1862 – Rear-Admiral J.L. Gardiner, Commander of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, ordered the USS Dacotah to cruise an area ranging...
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Keys History Center
Sep 29, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – September 30, 2023
1926 – Monroe County Engineer Joseph Watkins and other officials went to Wood Key off the western Everglades in mainland Monroe to check...
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Keys History Center
Sep 6, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – September 7, 2023
1825 – Solomon Snyder, a New York native, resident of Key Vaca, and Spanish Vice Consul for Florida, died at Indian Key. 1878 – A...
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Keys History Center
Aug 30, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – August 31, 2023
1833 – German naturalist Dr. E.F. Leitner arrived at Key West after successfully crossing the Everglades alone. During the four-month...
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Keys History Center
Jul 7, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – July 8, 2023
Northwest Channel lighthouse, circa 1970 1774 – It was reported that English surveyor George Gauld had set out from Pensacola in May to...
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Keys History Center
May 10, 20232 min read
Today in Keys History – May 11, 2023
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...
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