1935 – A resolution by aFlorida Congressman to designate Key West Naval base a winter station for submarines met opposition from the Navy.

The late Jim Clupper compiled a comprehensive list of islands in the Florida Keys, with notes on the history of their names.

1993 – Key West resident and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey died at age 78.

1986 – The last “Blessing of the Shrimp Fleet” took place, with Father Tony Mullane performing the service.

1952 – Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the U.S. National Museum, issued a statement outlining the distinctiveness of the Key deer.

2010 – The Friends of Higgs Beach, an ad hoc citizens’ group, was working with Monroe County to improve the Key West beachfront park.

1935 – A group of 10 Key West women went to Pirate’s Cove on Sugarloaf Key for lunch and an afternoon of playing bridge.

1937 – The turtling schooner A.M. Adams arrived in Key West on its first voyage, delivering a cargo of 380 green sea turtles.

1939 – Construction of the cable schooner Western Union was progressing rapidly.

1858 - Sombrero Key Lighthouse was first lighted under the charge of lightkeeper Joseph Bethel.

1953 – The Arthur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion, asked the City of Key West for permission to buy the land where their clubhouse sat.

1963 - Filming began on “Man In The Water,” a movie starring Mark Stevens.

Letters recently donated to the Florida Keys History Center illuminate a century-old Key West banking scandal.

1939 – A Works Progress Administration sewer line project employing 442 Key West men had, to date, laid 20 miles of sewer pipe in the city.

956 – The Cuban ferry, the City of Havana, sailed for the first time from the new terminal on Stock Island.

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We have a wide selection of award-winning titles in our collection, in print, eBook and eAudiobook formats.

The Mahjong Club for adults meets on Thursdays from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Key West Library.

1947 – President Harry Truman’s arrival in Key West was a windfall for many residents.

Borrow "The Queen of Sugar Hill" by ReShonda Tate as an eBook or eAudiobook March 13-27 with no holds and no waiting.