1908 – The Tampa baseball team lost every game it had played during the week against the Key West players. The Key West club was...

1909 – The Bell Telephone Company at Key West, which had been destroyed in the October 11 hurricane, had restored service to 200 lines...

1862 – The yellow fever epidemic that began in August was running its course but still five members of the 90th New York Regiment at Key...

1901 – St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church on Duval Street was destroyed by fire, though a large part of the church’s valuables...

1829 – Yellow fever was rampant at Key West. One resident wrote, “This place still continues sickly. Although every person who could get...

1900 – The Key West Library in the Masonic Temple building at 315 Simonton Street had 1,600 volumes under Librarian Sallie E. Roberts....

1825 – The U.S. schooner Shark arrived at Key West with Captain Lewis Warrington, who was relieving Commodore David Porter as commander...

1827 – Former U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter, now commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy, brought the frigate Liberator , the brig...

1832 – The Jackson Hotel at Key West was destroyed by fire, an uninsured loss of $7,000. Residents feared the Custom House, and even the...

1924 – The price of Key Largo land was on the rise, with oceanfront lots sometimes exceeding $200 an acre. Many landowners, though, were...

1818 – The brig Sally , sailing from Rhode Island to Havana via Savannah, was wrecked on the Florida Reef. The crew and cargo were saved...

1827 – Former U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter, now commander-in-chief of the Mexican Navy, brought the frigate Liberator, the brig...

1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose before the sun and put my dry specimens in a paper book. After breakfast read...