Many people were traveling by train from Miami to Knights Key “solely for the novelty of the ride over the sea by rail.”

1924 – The first batch of concrete for the walls of the San Carlos Opera House was poured.

1935 – An excursion to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas was offered to up to 16 passengers on the Commodore seaplane.

1912 – Key West continued to celebrate the completion of the railroad. At 11 a.m. a parade marched down Duval Street.

2004 – The City of Key West hired Armando Parra as official chicken catcher to try to control the island’s free-ranging chicken population.

1880 – Former U.S. President and Army General Ulysses S. Grant visited Key West.

1912 – “Opening the Over Sea Railway to Key West” was the cover story of Collier’s National Weekly Magazine.

1940 – The East Martello Tower was opened to tourists. Boys employed by the National Youth Administration served as guides.

1975 – Spurred by recent national press coverage, local interest was renewed in the Japanese “Midget C” submarine displayed in Key West.