1908 – Harry Goodson, butcher at Key West’s Palace Market, broke his leg in a bicycle accident that occurred as he tried to avoid a...

1828 – The lighthouses at Key West, Sand Key, and the Dry Tortugas were low on oil and could make only “a very indifferent light.” It...

1880 – The American Shoals Lighthouse was first lighted. 1924 – The Florida State Board of Health notified the City of Key West that...

1826 – H.A.S. Dearborn, Superintendent of Lighthouses, issued a call for proposals to construct a lighthouse and keeper’s quarters at...

1876 – The Lighthouse on Fort Jefferson was lighted. 1918 – Student aviator Thomas W. Eden was killed, and another student pilot, J.J....

1858 – Sombrero Key Lighthouse was first lighted. 1865 – The Key West Literary Association honored Major Benjamin C. Lincoln, commander...

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

1848 – The new Key West Lighthouse on Whitehead Street was lighted for the first time. The lighthouse was built to replace the one...

1826 – A writer at Key West noted, “The materials for the Light House at the Dry Tortugas are all landed there, and the workmen will...

1827 – Construction began on the first lighthouse on Sand Key. The 60-foot brick structure would be completed in 70 days. 1913 – The...

1829 – Key West’s first newspaper, The Key West Register , began publication under Thomas Eastin. 1851 – Capt. J.W.P. Lewis, engineer,...

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

1836 – A turtling vessel was attacked at the west end of Key Largo by approximately 30 Seminole warriors. The master and crew of the...

1865 – Henry Johnson of the 2nd US Colored Troops, Company B, died at Key West and was buried in the Post Cemetery on White Street. 1909...

1832 – Key West experienced a severe gale that “continued with unabated fury” until the next morning. It was supposed many ships had...

1845 – Many vultures and crows were flying over a particular area of Stock Island, and on investigation the body of a man was found...

American Shoal Lighthouse 1857 – The ship Carrack , sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool with 2,700 bales of cotton, was struck by...

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

Key West Electric city bus at the corner of Fleming and Margaret streets 1858 – The Fort Jefferson Lighthouse was first lighted. 1920 ...

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