1936 – Leonard Giovannoli, former biology instructor at the University of Florida, was placed in charge of the crawfish hatchery at the...

1901 – The Diebold Safe and Lock Company was installing a large vault in the County House for the use as an armory and for the Clerk of...

1946 – In a special meeting, the Key West City Commission passed a resolution authorizing the purchase of the beach property at the...

1906 – El Centro Asturiano established a branch in Key West. The society had one of the finest hospitals in Havana. 1906 – Wm. Curry &...

1910 – The Department of Agriculture issued a request for proposals for the construction of a new concrete weather station at Sand Key....

1863 – The U.S. Gunboat Sagamore returned to Key West after a one-month cruise. During that time Sagamore was involved in the rescue...

1832 – Since January 1st, there had been eight deaths in Key West. Of adults, there were two drownings, two died of tuberculosis, and...

1864 – Admiral Theodorus Bailey, flag officer commanding the East Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key West, wrote: “My worst fears have been...

1856 – A sailor admitted to the Key West Marine Hospital three weeks earlier for tuberculosis supposedly died of yellow fever contracted...

1953 – A tentative “Master Plan” for Key West was unveiled at the City Commission meeting. 1954 – John P. Goggin was named Marathon’s...

1910 – Two Key West children were burned after their mother placed a can of flaming insect powder on the nightstand and it ignited the...

1901 – N.M. George on the yacht Privateer fishing in the Bahia Honda Channel landed a tarpon that weighed 213 pounds and measured 7...

1825 – The U.S. schooner Shark sailed from Key West to Havana with a group of pirates captured by the USS Sea Gull . The outlaws were...

1906 – After 14 days of testing the DeForest wireless telegraph was accepted by the Navy. The stations in the system were at Key West,...

1861 – Key Wester and Confederate sympathizer Henry Mulrennan flew the flag of the Republic of Florida over his store, which he had...

1829 – During a gale, the British ship Britannia , carrying rum, sugar, coffee, pimento, fustic and hides from Jamaica, wrecked on Conch...

1853 – Bowne and Curry successfully tested a marine railway that was capable of lifting vessels of 500 tons. 1858 – Professor Louis...

1855 – Northwest Channel Lighthouse was first lighted. 1907 – Sir William Gray Wilson, Governor of The Bahamas, was in Key West as the...

1898 – An unidentified sailor from the Battleship Maine was buried in the Battleship Maine Plot in the Key West City Cemetery. 1911 –...

1862 – U.S. troops at Key West were flouting postal protocol by smuggling their letters via Spanish “fruit sloops” to Havana, from where...