1909 – The Monroe County Commission approved a contract with E.T. Crittendon to install a sewer line running from the courthouse to the...

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

1893 – Key West had no ice. “The ice famine is raging, and if the vessel laden with ice does not arrive soon, the inhabitants of this...

1823 – The port of Mobile reported that 14,900 feet of sawed lumber had been exported to Key West from there in the year ending...

1829 – The four owners of the Island of Key West – John Simonton, Pardon Greene, John Whitehead and John Fleming – signed an agreement...

1844 – The damaged cargo of cotton and tallow from the British brig Conservative , wrecked on Long Key, was sold at Key West for $4,000....

1837 – A woman testified in a Philadelphia court that a sailor named Mitchell had come to her house and told her husband he had buried...

1836 – The U.S. schooner Motto arrived at Key West from Cape Florida and reported that 40 Seminole fighters had attacked and burned the...

1852 – The steamer Philadelphia arrived at Key West with many passengers sick with cholera. No one was allowed on the island, and...

A fourth grade class at May Sands School, 1956-57 1816 – The ship General Pike was driven onto the reef near Key Largo during a gale,...

Sombrero Beach sales office in 1966. 1823 – There had been no rain at Key Vaca (Marathon) for many weeks and vegetation there was in a...