1899 – Annie Fay, a white woman, and Will Harrison, a Black man, were convicted in the criminal court at Key West for having married....

1914 – A new chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was formed at the home of Mrs. Adele Kirkland at the corner of White and...

1904 – The new St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Truman Avenue was dedicated by the Rt. Rev. W.J. Kenny, D.D., Bishop of St....

1862 – A “distillery machine” brought from New York was employed at Fort Taylor to convert seawater to freshwater, and it was providing...

1832 – John J. Audubon arrived at Indian Key on the Revenue Cutter Marion . 1926 – Confederate Memorial Day was observed by the Stephen...

1898 – Five sailors’ bodies recovered from the Battleship Maine, sunk in Havana Harbor, were buried in the Maine Plot in the Key West...

1900 – Jacob McCleary, who worked on the Big Pine Key farm of Whitmore Pinder, shot and killed James Straun. For some time, Straun had...

1855 – Florida Governor J.E. Broome signed a law passed by the Legislature that made it illegal for any Free Black person who arrived at...

1891 – An arsonist attempted to burn the Olivia Street property of Robert K. Fulford by igniting kerosene-soaked rags and wood shavings...

1899 – Annie Fay, a White woman, and Will Harrison, a Black man, were convicted in the criminal court at Key West for having married....

In 188, Dr. Lemuel Walter Livingston became principal of Key West's Douglass School - and the island's first Black physician.

1847 – Six enslaved men who had been put to work on the construction of Fort Jefferson escaped on a schooner from the Dry Tortugas and...

Nelson English 1850 – The ship Meteor , from Apalachicola bound to Liverpool, was off Key West with a signal raised requesting a pilot....

Collecting Conch and sea urchins in the 1970s. 1842 – The barque Alasco , sailing from Havana to St. Petersburg, ran ashore at Conch...

Abe Sawyer, circa 1900 1823 – A hospital, Marine barracks, and two public storehouses had been completed at Thompson’s Island [Key...

1897 – Key Wester Sylvanus Johnson was charged with rape. During the justice of the peace hearing when he was ordered held without bond,...

1893 – Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti arrived in Key West from Tampa. Nearly every Cuban-occupied building and residence was...

1837 – Capt. Hiram Benner of the wrecking schooner United States reported at Indian Key that he had found a submerged, dismasted vessel...

1906 – A group of young men speared an eight-foot, 800-pound sea lion in Jewfish Channel. The seal initially towed their boat as it...

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