1906 – Navy coaling operations at Garden Key were transferred to Key West as the process of converting the Dry Tortugas facility to a quarantine station began.
1923 – At a meeting in Charleston, the Atlantic Coastal Highway Association unanimously adopted and submitted plans for a road from the mainland to Key West.
1933 – More than 350 sacks of flour were distributed to needy Keys residents by the Emergency Relief Council for Monroe County.
1946 – The Civil Aeronautics authority recommended Key West as a site for a “Class 3” airport. The $125,000 construction project would employ 100 men.
1973 – The USS Howard W. Gilmore departed the Naval Station for her new home port of La Madeleine, Sardinia. The Gilmore, a submarine tender, was the largest Navy ship to be stationed in Key West.
1986 – Key West Harbor Development, the company that the city had chosen to finance and redevelop Truman Annex, withdrew from its agreement. The company claimed that action by the Key West City Commission had breached its contract with the redevelopment agency.
1996 – Key West City Commission approved the AIDS memorial plaza to be built at the entrance to the White Street Pier.
2007 – Three scuba divers from New Jersey died at Spiegel Grove shipwreck, located six miles off Key Largo. The three had penetrated deep into the 510-foot-long ship, become disoriented, and ran out of air.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Coaling station, Dry Tortugas, Fla ca. 1900. The DeWolfe and Wood Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.