1907 – Russell Hall was reopened after Schools Superintendent J.V. Harris had closed the school for a week because a saloon was nearby....

1909 – The Bell Telephone Company at Key West, which had been destroyed in the October 11 hurricane, had restored service to 200 lines...

1906 – The Episcopal bishop’s yacht Message of Peace arrived at Key West from Nassau with Rev. Father Andley J. Brown and H.W. Weigall...

1908 – Captain A.B. Potter of the R.G. Ross Construction Company arrived to begin work on raising the east jetty of the Northwest...

1904 – James A. Waddell died at age 65. He was born in Canada and came to Key West in 1881 to work at the John White Bank. He served as...

1908 – There was a scarcity of gasoline in Key West after the schooner Wave burned in Tampa 10 days earlier. While Capt. George Wish...

1898 – Battery B, 1st U.S. Army Artillery, with 2 officers and 121 men, arrived at the Key West Barracks from Hilton Head, SC. 1907 – A...

1890 – Commander J.H. Winn, Commander Naval Base Key West, moved into the newly built commandant’s quarters (now known as the Little...

1909 – Many vessels were still sunk, jumbled, or trapped at Key West because of the October 11 hurricane. Especially problematic were...

1828 – The act incorporating the City of Key West was repealed and a new one incorporating the Town of Key West was passed by the...

1909 – Leo DeVera of Key West was killed while hunting at the east end of the island. The 17-year-old was creeping up on a flock of...

1865 – George Davis, Attorney General of the Confederate States, was arrested at Key West by U.S. Deputy Marshal Benjamin Kerr and...

1906 – Over nine inches of rain had fallen in 48 hours, flooding the lower parts of Key West. The water at the corner of Southard and...

1864 – Henry Hamilton and Darius Stokes, members of the 2nd USCT, were executed at Key West, probably by a firing squad, for mutiny that...

1828 – The first term of the Superior Court Southern Judicial District of the Territory of Florida was held in Key West. 1953 – A...

1936 – Leonard Giovannoli, former biology instructor at the University of Florida, was placed in charge of the crawfish hatchery at the...

1822 – The brig Samson , sailing from Mobile to Maine, was boarded by pirates off the Dry Tortugas. The passengers and crew were robbed...

1889 – Key West’s cigarmakers were on strike and the work stoppage was affecting other businesses on the island. After determining his...

1900 – The people of Key West raised over $1,200 for victims of the Galveston hurricane. The disbanded cigarmakers’ union voted to give...

1823 – The brig Phoebe Ann , sailing to New Orleans, wrecked on the Western Dry Rocks near Sand Key. The crew got the vessel off by...