1898 – An unidentified sailor from the Battleship Maine was buried in the Battleship Maine Plot in the Key West City Cemetery.
1911 – Monroe County started construction on two poor houses at the rear of Windsor Lane.
1924 – Key West was busy with tourists, including groups from national tour companies. Parties from United Tours, Foster Tours, Jones Tours, and Raymond & Whitcomb Tours were making for a noticeably crowded Duval Street.
1961 – A crowded, tumultuous meeting of the Board of Directors of the San Carlos Institute resulted in a break in relations between the Institute and the government of Cuba.
1974 – Owners of the Food Fair building in Marathon, which was being considered as a courthouse facility for the Middle Keys, were asking $575,000 for the property.
1986 – Jan McArt’s Cabaret Theater, located in the former Wall & Co. warehouse and Mallory Square Convention Center, celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a staging of the musical “Evita.”
2009 – The majority of Key West City Commissioners selected the existing Angela Street site as their preferred location for a new City Hall, though some wanted to use Wickers Field for a new building.
2014 – Art conservators were restoring two murals painted in 1936 by William Hoffman under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration. The paintings had hung in the Glynn Archer Elementary School auditorium and would be returned there after the building was converted to use as Key West City Hall.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Wall and Company Warehouse on Mallory Docks in 1963 when it was the Convention Center. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.