1837 – Capt. Hiram Benner of the wrecking schooner United States reported at Indian Key that he had found a submerged, dismasted vessel...

1859 – The US Coast Survey steamer Corwin arrived from New York to begin surveying the reefs and channels near Knight’s Key. 1859 – A...

1911 – The steamer Luckenbach was aground eight miles from Key West and in a dangerous situation. The lives of the 28 men onboard were...

1859 – The ship Mulhouse went ashore and bilged on the Quicksands west of the Marquesas Keys. Mulhouse was carrying 26 passengers,...

1926 – Samuel J. Wilde of Boston purchased Crawl Key near Marathon from Mary Porter Harris, wife of the late Judge W. Hunt Harris of Key...

1825 – The French ship Point Petre , sailing from New Orleans for Bordeaux, was lost on the Florida reef. The crew was saved, along with...

1921 – Monroe County Sheriff Roland Curry raided the home of Juan Menendez on County Road near the Cortez cigar factory in Key West and...

1855 – The Northwest Channel Lighthouse was lighted for the first time. 1901 – Monroe County Sheriff Richard Hicks was in Tampa to...

1734 – The ship Charles , sailing from Jamaica to Bristol, was approached at the Florida Keys by a Spanish vessel, whose crew offered to...

1847 – Congress approved $12,000 to build a new lighthouse at Key West, and another $20,00 to install a new screw-pile lighthouse at...

1861 – The steamer Daniel Webster arrived with supplies for the garrisons at Forts Taylor and Jefferson. 1929 – J.L. Webster was...

1821 – The United States Senate ratified the treaty with Spain and Florida became a U.S. Territory. 1895 – There were 119 Florida Keys...

1843 – The Key West wrecking schooner Rome found floating barrels of pork and lard near Key Vaca, and between there and Bahia Honda it...

1869 – One hundred and thirty-seven Cuban refugees fleeing Spanish oppression arrived at Key West. 1885 – The 1885 Florida State Census...

1823 – Capt. Daniel Patterson of the US Navy arrived at Key West to begin a formal survey of the island and its harbor. Patterson was...

1923 – Orator and former Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan arrived at Key West by train and was to present at the Strand Theater...

1744 – The HMS Looe struck on the Florida Keys reef that now bears its name. Capt. Utting, the ship’s commander, saw that there was no...

1830 – The sloop USS Florida , under Lieut. Josiah Tattnall, sailed from Key West, bound for Washington, DC. The Key West Register ...

1916 – Wealthy U.S. industrialist Andrew Carnegie, accompanied by his wife and friends, was on the houseboat Everglades out of Marathon...

1908 – The schooner Magic , a former America’s Cup race winner, was raised and towed into Key West harbor by owner John Lowe. The...