1887 – William Cooper was publicly hanged on the grounds of the Key West jail for the murders of Liverpool Bain and George Hudson and...

North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West, circa 1940s 1823 – Commodore David Porter sent five Spanish pirates to the Captain-General of...

Key West Police Officer Clarence Till’s widow and children at his gravesite in Key West Cemetery 1823 – Monroe County, the sixth county...

1825 – An officer on board the USS John Adams at Key West wrote that an especially malignant yellow fever was rampant at the island,...

McCrorys on Duval Street in 1953 1909 – The schooner Edward W. Mudock arrived from Rockport, Maine with the last shipment of stone for...

The beach at Sadowski’s Key Motel at Key Colony Beach in February 1952. 1889 – The Florida Legislature granted a new charter to the...

Key West Mayor Kermit Lewin cuts the ribbon at the premiere of the film “Escape from Hell Island.” 1890 – George Hudson was named Key...

Shorty’s Diner, circa 1980 1845 – Wreckers were at work salvaging the cargo of the ship Rizeni , aground on the reef near Rodriguez...

The lounge in the WAVE barracks at the Army Barracks Key West on June 3, 1945. U.S. Navy Photo from the Wright Langley Collection. 1905...

1865 – Word reached Key West that General Robert E. Lee had surrendered to General U.S. Grant on April 9, essentially ending the Civil...

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

1853 – The case of the brig Cymbus , which had wrecked on the Western Dry Rocks, was heard in Federal Court. The vessel, sailing from...

1858 – Professor Louis Agassiz of Harvard University was at Key West continuing his multi-year examination of the Florida reef and...

1909 – Upton Sinclair, author of “The Jungle,” was ill in the Louise Maloney Hospital in Key West. He was a passenger on the Mallory...

1847 – Congress approved $12,000 to build a new lighthouse at Key West, and another $20,00 to install a new screw-pile lighthouse at...

1898 – The Naval Court of Inquiry in the sinking of the Battleship Maine was organized. The members of the Court – Captain French E....

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

1917 – Polk’s Key West City Directory for 1917/18 listed 16 Coffee Shops in the city. 1954 – James Silver of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

1896 – William Curry, Key West’s most highly esteemed citizen and businessman, died. He was born at Green Turtle Cay, Bahamas, on Sept....

1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose before seven, cut an orange and read the President’s message before breakfast....