1894 – Napoleon Pinder, a native of Nassau, was the largest man in Key West. At 21 years of age, he was 6 feet 7 inches tall and weighed 228 pounds.
1925 – Land on No Name Key reached a record high when 67 acres sold for $10,000, or $150 an acre. Only a week earlier another tract had sold at $100 an acre. The rapid increase in price was indicative of a land boom that had hit the Keys.
1947 – President Harry Truman signed an authorization permitting Aerovias Q, a Cuban airline, to operate daily flights between Key West and Havana.
1954 – After completing recent structural surveys, the Florida Road Department greenlighted two thousand feet of fishing catwalks to be attached to Keys bridges between Boca Chica and Whale Harbor.
1976 – The Navy water pipeline system was transferred to the Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority by Marjorie Lynch, United States Undersecretary of Health Education and Welfare.
1999 – State investigators arrested two Duval Street t-shirt shop owners on charges of credit card fraud after $4,500 in bogus charges were applied to a tourist’s lost or stolen credit card. The occupational licenses of both businesses were suspended.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Fishing catwalk on a bridge of the Overseas Highway, ca. 1960. Photo by Don Pinder. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.