1893 – Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church was founded by Reverend George Lester at 717 Simonton Street in Key West. The church was later...

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...

1850 – The Spanish brig Moreno , sailing from Trinidad de Cuba to Barcelona with a cargo of sugar, aguardiente, and cigars, ran ashore...

1898 – The Army took over the Cuban telegraph cable from Western Union. Telegraph Superintendent M.L. Hellings was commissioned as...

1836 – Feilding A. Browne was elected mayor of Key West. 1886 – Still reeling from the devastating March 30 fire, the Relief Committee...

1906 – After 14 days of testing the DeForest wireless telegraph was accepted by the Navy. The stations in the system were at Key West,...

1853 – W.C. Dennis, proprietor of the Key West salt works, reported that because of an exceptionally dry summer, a bounteous crop of...

1867 – The first official telegraphic messages were sent between Key West and Cuba. Key West Mayor E. O. Gwynn wrote to Cuban...

1867 – The new submarine telegraph cable running between Key West and Havana was successfully spliced and was working well. 1921 – The...

1867 – The steamer Narva left Key West to begin laying telegraph cable between there and Cuba. The average rate of paying out cable was...

Agustin Parla’s plane over Morro Castle in 1913. 1865 – Confederate scientific advisor Richard Sears McCulloh was captured at Cape...

1853 – The steamer James L. Day arrived at Key West from New Orleans bringing with it the first mail shipment between the two ports....

1841 – Rigging and other equipment salvaged from the ship Manchester , sailing from Havre to Mobile in ballast, were auctioned at Key...

1832 – It was reported that Cuban fishermen at Key West had caught a thief and hung him from their mast without judge or jury....

1859 – The US Coast Survey steamer Corwin arrived from New York to begin surveying the reefs and channels near Knight’s Key. 1859 – A...

1906 – Commander Beehler of Naval Station Key West reported the receipt at the wireless telegraph station of an eight-word message from...

1861 – The Army reported that Fort Taylor had the following armament: 60 coastal and garrison cannons, 50 8-inch Columbians and 10...

1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose with the sun. Last night a pilot built schooner the Henry Clay of Baltimore,...