1878 – A hurricane that claimed hundreds of lives in Cuban and Haiti passed over the Middle Keys on a due north course that took it over...

1842 – The United States signed a contract to build a Marine Hospital at Key West to treat merchant marine sailors. The Marine Hospital...

1860 – The USS Crusader arrived at Key West with the captured slave ship Bogota . Bogota’s 411 Africans were turned over to U.S....

1861 – President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeus corpus at Key West and the Dry Tortugas. Any person considered dangerous...

1895 – Wm. H. Williams, manager of the Key West Wrecking Company, returned from Cuba, where he had gone with a diver to salvage papers...

1825 – Solomon Snyder, a New York native, resident of Key Vaca, and Spanish Vice Consul for Florida, died at Indian Key. 1878 – A...

1739 – Capt. Samuel Crow, sailing from Honduras to Rhode Island, saw a wreck at the Dry Tortugas. He drew closer to it and saw a plank...

1867 – The steamer Narva left Key West to begin laying telegraph cable between there and Cuba. The average rate of paying out cable was...

1830 – William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at seven. During the night we had a light shower and another about 10. Captain...