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...

1904 – Fred Ewert was hanged for the murder of Frank Whitaker. The gallows was erected behind the Monroe County Jail at the corner of...

1893 – Author Edwin L. Sabin wrote of a visit to Key West, “It is a misnomer to call Key West an American city. It is not. It has all...

1885 – The Key West Board of Trade, the island’s first commercial advocacy organization, was organized with John Jay Philbrick as...

1887 – The Spanish language newspaper El Yara began publication in Key West. 1897 – Extremely high tides in the Upper Keys destroyed...

1884 – There were 645,000 cigars, 14 bales of sponge, and 112 hides shipped from Key West to New York over the previous week. 1904 –...

1897 – Mason S. Moreno was named Postmaster of Key West. 1954 – An era in Key West history ended when the Ella Collins was beached and...

1890 – Key West, with a population of 18,786, was the largest city in Florida. Primary employers were the cigar factories making...

1873 – The Alligator Reef Lighthouse was completed. 1907 – Coast Artillery companies were conducting target practice from Fort Taylor...

1901 – The population of South Florida (all the land south of Lake Okeechobee, comprising Lee, Dade, and Monroe counties) was 26,092....

1899 – Thanksgiving Day was observed by all churches, which held services. In the afternoon the bazaar was held at La Brisa. The bicycle...

1901 – The population of Monroe County by the 1900 census was 18,066, with 17,114 in the city of Key West, and the remainder of 364 in...

1907 – The Florida East Coast Railway steamer St. Lucie left Key West for Long Key with a crowd of men. The railroad had announced 100...

1899 – Annie Fay, a white woman, and Will Harrison, a Black man, were convicted in the criminal court at Key West for having married....

1895 – The Key West sponge schooner Shamrock sank off St. Marin’s Key and six of the 14-man crew were lost. 1908 – James Miller, a Key...