1896 – Juana Borrero Pierra, Cuban patriot, poet and painter, died of tuberculosis in Key West at the age of 18. Borrero began painting...

1853 – Bowne and Curry successfully tested a marine railway that was capable of lifting vessels of 500 tons. 1858 – Professor Louis...

1829 – Col. George M. Brooke of the U.S. Army, accompanied by a Dr. Macomb, arrived at Key West to examine the island and select a site...

1904 – Key West police officer Clarence K. Till was killed in a shootout with Dutchy Melbourne. Officer Till had answered a call about a...

The Cuban poet and artist Juana Borrero died in Key West at age 18 - but left a lasting legacy.

1855 – The steamer St. Lawrence arrived at Key West from New York, and rumors began to spread that it carried supplies for Cuba’s...

1855 – Northwest Channel Lighthouse was first lighted. 1907 – Sir William Gray Wilson, Governor of The Bahamas, was in Key West as the...

1823 – The port of Mobile reported that 14,900 feet of sawed lumber had been exported to Key West from there in the year ending...

1898 – An unidentified sailor from the Battleship Maine was buried in the Battleship Maine Plot in the Key West City Cemetery. 1911 –...

1898 – The Court of Inquiry investigating the loss of the Battleship Maine met in the Key West Custom House. 1923 – United Daughters...

1862 – U.S. troops at Key West were flouting postal protocol by smuggling their letters via Spanish “fruit sloops” to Havana, from where...

1852 – The barque Sarah Ann of Newport, RI, was trapped in the maze of reefs near Pelican Shoals, southeast of Boca Chica. Key West...

1926 – Herman Wolkowsky of Key West erected a 16-by-24-foot promotional sign in Miami that read “You Have Not Seen Florida Until You See...

1828 – The U.S. mail packet schooner Stranger was advertising to carry freight and passengers from Charleston to Indian Key and Key West...

1830 – A report on deaths at Key West since April 1, 1829 revealed multiple causes: yellow fever, 18; worm fever, 1; visceral...

1830 – The Key West Register reported that 1,074 vessels had put in at the Key West Custom House between January 1, 1826, and January 1,...

1890 – Key Wester Charles Moffat, who had established a store near Miami for the purpose of trading with the Everglades Indians, came to...

1861 – Supplies and a detachment of 62 troops from the First U.S. Artillery were landed at Fort Taylor from the steamer Daniel Webster ...

1834 – A proposal for a newspaper to be called the Key West Sentinel said, “Original essays on local subjects will be thankfully...

1906 – Stock Island was connected to Key West with a 12-foot-wide roadway on which the Florida East Coast Railroad would run. Filling to...