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

1830 – A report on deaths at Key West since April 1, 1829 revealed multiple causes: yellow fever, 18; worm fever, 1; visceral...

1861 – Supplies and a detachment of 62 troops from the First U.S. Artillery were landed at Fort Taylor from the steamer Daniel Webster ...

1906 – Stock Island was connected to Key West with a 12-foot-wide roadway on which the Florida East Coast Railroad would run. Filling to...

1891 – William Tuttar of Key Largo was bitten by a “monster rattle-snake, with seventeen rattles and a button.” He killed the reptile,...

1858 – During the night, 12 enslaved Key Westers escaped from the island by stealing the Sand Key lighthouse boat. Despite a large...

1824 – The Spanish schooner Ninfa Catalina was captured by the Colombian privateer General Soublette on suspicion of being a pirate,...

1905 – Key Wester Charles Kelly died mysteriously while on a woodcutting expedition at the mainland Monroe County settlement of...

The Lower Matecumbe toll booth on the Overseas Highway C 1940. 1816 – The ship Mercury of Philadelphia, carrying cotton from New...

1862 – A correspondent for the New York Herald wrote, “Business at Key West is brisk, and money seems to be plenty. Since our arrival...

1822 – Captains Joshua Appleby and John Fiveash advertised their schooners Polly and Comet as available to carry freight and...

1837 – A woman testified in a Philadelphia court that a sailor named Mitchell had come to her house and told her husband he had buried...

1899 – Since October 9, there had been 31 new cases of yellow fever and three deaths. Thirteen of those cases and two of the deaths came...

1905 – The cornerstone of the National Bank building at the corners of Duval and Front streets was laid. John T. Sawyer, one of the...

1849 – To escape harassment by the Seminoles, Col. Wm. F. English arrived at Key West from his Miami River settlement, with people he...

1843 – The ship Gerard of Bath, loaded with tobacco, was found by wreckers abandoned and full of water near Indian Key. It appeared...

The Welters Cornet Band in Key West, circa 1920 1820 – A Cuban pirate ship plundered the schooners Mary McKay and Primrose off...

1872 – Key West was suffering a water famine from the shortage of rain. The situation was so bad that the commandant of Fort Taylor...

Postcard of a house at 400 South St., Key West 1861 – Rains had fallen at Key West allowing Capt. E.B. Hunt of the U.S. Army Corps of...

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...