1832 –  Father Sanson K. Brunot held the first Episcopal services on the Island and the first organized church services in the young...

1901 – The U.S. government halted the raising of carrier pigeons at its Key West station. Small lots of breeders and carriers were...

1824 – The brig America , sailing from Baltimore to Key West with a cargo of flour, wrecked at Carysfort Reef. Wreckers removed much of...

1853 – The USS Cyane arrived at Key West from Havana so the crew could have some leisure time, as smallpox in Cuba had prevented them...

1832 – The Jackson Hotel at Key West was destroyed by fire, an uninsured loss of $7,000. Residents feared the Custom House, and even the...

1870 – The Sears School, Key West’s first public school, was established on Free School Lane. 1890 – The Key West Investment Company...

1806 – The schooner Sea Flower , sailing from Havana to New York, wrecked “a little northward of Key Largo.” The crew and cargo were...

1892 – William Blatchford packed 25,000 pounds of Spanish mackerel in 125 barrels and shipped the fish from Key West to Tampa on the...

1790 – Captain Commander of the Bahamian schooner Surprise discovered the wreck of a Spanish vessel a little northward of Key Largo. He...

1844 – The damaged cargo of cotton and tallow from the British brig Conservative , wrecked on Long Key, was sold at Key West for $4,000....

1891 – An arsonist attempted to burn the Olivia Street property of Robert K. Fulford by igniting kerosene-soaked rags and wood shavings...

In 1927, a car dealer and a race car driver made the first trip from the mainland to Key West by automobile - partly on train tracks.

1845 – A writer at Key West complained that the weather was severe, and the thermometer had dropped to 60 degrees. 1888 – The contract...

1886 – Former lightkeeper at Loggerhead Key in the Dry Tortugas and Inspector of Customs at Key West Benjamin H. Kerr killed himself...

1836 – Several green-painted water casks came floating into Key West Harbor on the flood tide. It was feared they were indicators of a...

1839 – The salvaged cargo of the wrecked brig Mary Howland was sold at Key West for $24,153.30, with wreckers awarded 43%. After...

1846 – The hull of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Morris , which had been driven into shallow water near Fleming Key in the October hurricane,...

1822 – President James Monroe appointed Joel Yancey to be Collector of Customs at Key West. 1862 – The members of the 90th New York...

1863 – U.S. Navy landsman George Sisinger died of chronic dysentery at the Navy hospital in Key West. 1924 – The group formed to...

1883 – E.G. Chesley wrote from Key West that pineapple farming was “rapidly extending throughout Monroe County.” He noted that 300 acres...