The Post Office Inn at 321 Simonton Street in the 1960s. 1832 – John James Audubon arrived at Key West from the Dry Tortugas with...

1893 – Cuban revolutionary leader Jose Marti arrived in Key West from Tampa. Nearly every Cuban-occupied building and residence was...

1895 – A bill was introduced in the Florida Senate authorizing Monroe County to issue $500,000 in bonds to build a highway from Key West...

1833 – Dr. B.B. Strobel and D.C. Pinkham fought a duel in which Pinkham was shot in the chest and died. Strobel left for his former home...

1865 – Word reached Key West that General Robert E. Lee had surrendered to General U.S. Grant on April 9, essentially ending the Civil...

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...

1858 – Professor Louis Agassiz of Harvard University was at Key West continuing his multi-year examination of the Florida reef and...

1917 – Polk’s Key West City Directory for 1917/18 listed 16 Coffee Shops in the city. 1954 – James Silver of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

1892 – Key West celebrated the 400th anniversary of the voyage to the Americas by Columbus with special programs in all the schools. 1899...