1908 – The Tampa baseball team lost every game it had played during the week against the Key West players. The Key West club was...

1890 – Key West, with a population of 18,786, was the largest city in Florida. Primary employers were the cigar factories making...

1906 – The Episcopal bishop’s yacht Message of Peace arrived at Key West from Nassau with Rev. Father Andley J. Brown and H.W. Weigall...

1913 – Joseph R. Stirrup accepted the position of assistant foreman at the Cortez Cigar Company in Key West. Stirrup was in the race to...

1871 – John Bartlum died at age 57. He was born in the Bahamas and was working in Key West by 1835. He was the leading shipbuilder of...

1861 – Major William H. French issued an order that all male citizens of the island must take an oath of allegiance to the United States...

1862 – During the month of August there were 150 cases of yellow fever reported by the Army in Key West. The deaths from fever totaled...

1907 – Two laborers working on the Florida East Coast railroad died after drinking illicit liquor purchased from itinerant bootleggers...

1832 – The owners of the British bark Glasgow that had gone aground at “Collins’ Point” on the Florida Reef with 1,099 bales of cotton...

1906 – Miss Elaine Cassidy was voted the most popular young lady at a dance given at La Brisa in Key West, and she was presented with a...

1900 – The Key West Library in the Masonic Temple building at 315 Simonton Street had 1,600 volumes under Librarian Sallie E. Roberts....

1914 – Meat prices were so high that Key West labor organizers had called on their members to stop buying beef. As a result, the cattle...

1890 – During a Sunday game of the Key West Cuban baseball league, a melee broke out between overly zealous fans and the players. Twelve...

1852 – A Key West correspondent wrote, “Mr. and Mrs. Mosquitoes made their first appearance on Sunday evening, 13th inst., claiming...

1898 – A U.S. Marine Battalion that had been camped at Key West left for Cuba on the USS Panther . 1923 – The local Key West Regulars...

1847 – The ship General Jackson , sailing from New York to New Orleans, went ashore on a reef 15 miles from Key West. The ship bilged...

1890 – Health officials deemed yellow fever endemic to Key West, with the principal causes of this condition being the many “closets” on...

1861 – Judge McQueen McIntosh, who had been appointed District Court judge by the Confederate States, arrived in Key West to hold court....

1924 – Real estate speculators were predicting Big Pine Key was positioned only behind Key Largo and Upper Matecumbe for a land boom....

1861 – Lt. T.A.M. Craven of the U.S. steamer Crusader issued a notice of blockade at Key West. It stipulated that no vessels would be...