1909 – The 102-ton schooner Annie Greenlaw was delivered to Key West turtle soup manufacturer Armand Granday.

1912 – President William H. Taft arrived in Key West via train.

1897 – The USS Maine fired warning shots toward schooners leaving Key West to command them to halt.

1862 - The Pennsylvania 47th regiment landed at Key West after having been in Hilton Head.

1910 – The Key West Bar Association met to gather support for the formation of a new judicial circuit.

1915 – Fire destroyed the large cigar factory of E.H. Gato at the corner of Simonton and Virginia streets.

1940 – Company E, 265th Field Artillery of the Florida National Guard was called into active federal service. The 90 Key Westers under...

1852 – J.C. Hoyt, agent of the insurance underwriters at Key West, reported that 22 vessels wrecked on the reef or put into port in...

1888 – The construction contract for the Custom House at the end of Whitehead Street was awarded. The structure was completed at a cost...

1847 – Philip J. Fontaine was elected mayor of Key West. He had earlier served as mayor from 1840 to 1841 and 1842 to 1844. 1910 – The...

1893 – Trinity Wesleyan Methodist Church was founded by Reverend George Lester at 717 Simonton Street in Key West. The church was later...

1860 – Capt. James M. Brannan, commanding officer of the U.S. Army at Key West, requested advice from Washington as to whether he should...

1892 – The U.S. War Department decided that Key West would be garrisoned for the first time since the late 1870s, after Col. Lahrette...

1867 – Former President of the Southern Confederacy Jefferson Davis stopped in Key West on his way to Havana, where he was going for his...

1854 – The ship A.M. Hayes , sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool, was at Key West in a leaking condition. Areas near the waterline...

1908 – The Key West Journal, a weekly newspaper, made its first appearance. Fred H. Mathews was the editor. 1934 – Under the auspices...

1908 – The Tampa baseball team lost every game it had played during the week against the Key West players. The Key West club was...

1849 – The New York Chamber of Commerce sent a memorial to Congress urging the salary of Judge William Marvin of the U.S. District Court...

1851 – The bark Franklin arrived at Key West from Philadelphia with iron framing for the new screw-pile lighthouse to be built at Sand...

1859 – In a trial in Federal Court, Alejandro Carcer and Guillot Eloy of the American schooner Enterprise were convicted of the murder...