1908 – Captain A.B. Potter of the R.G. Ross Construction Company arrived to begin work on raising the east jetty of the Northwest...

1908 – There was a scarcity of gasoline in Key West after the schooner Wave burned in Tampa 10 days earlier. While Capt. George Wish...

1909 – Many vessels were still sunk, jumbled, or trapped at Key West because of the October 11 hurricane. Especially problematic were...

1908 – Two six-pounder saluting guns were placed at Naval Station Key West, and they were ready to salute incoming vessels, in return...

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

1909 – O.O. Poppleton, “the bee king of the East Coast,” reported that he had harvested 14 tons of honey from his 200-hive apiary on Key...

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

1845 – Construction began on Fort Taylor off the western end of Key West. 1924 – Melvin E. Russell, who had been elected Superintendent...

1862 – A Key West man bragged to soldiers of the 47th Pennsylvania regiment about his secessionist principles and swore that he could...

1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeus corpus at Key West and the Dry Tortugas. Any person considered dangerous...

1893 – The Key West Cornet Band was the “Champion of the State.” The officers of the band were: Charles A. Shavers, president; F.W....

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

1823 – The U.S. vessels Peacock , Sea Gull , Decoy , and Mary were at Key West as part of the Navy’s anti-piracy squadron. The...

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...

1908 – The mail boat from Miami to Key West ran aground, and delivery was delayed for 36 hours. 1923 – It was reported that a total of...

1831 – The 230 Irish canal workers rescued from the wreck of the ship Maria at Carysfort Reef, and who had caused much unwanted...

1831 – The ship Maria , sailing from Philadelphia to New Orleans with 230 Irish laborers for the New Orleans canal, wrecked at Carysfort...

1830 – William A. Whitehead was named Collector of Customs and Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Key West, replacing Algernon S....

1900 – The Mayor of Key West was George L. Bartlum. The members of the Key West Board Aldermen were: Charles R. Pierce, Joshua Curry,...

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...