1822 – Captains Joshua Appleby and John Fiveash advertised their schooners Polly and Comet as available to carry freight and...

1860 – William C. Greene died at the Dry Tortugas. He served as mayor of Key West from 1839 to 1840. 1899 – There were two new cases of...

1837 – A woman testified in a Philadelphia court that a sailor named Mitchell had come to her house and told her husband he had buried...

1926 – Indigent “snowbirds” were beginning to arrive at Key West. Local authorities were seeking ways to find them employment, forward...

1878 – “Poisoned water” was at the Dry Tortugas. Fish and conch were dying all around Fort Jefferson, and their remains were so...

1899 – Since October 9, there had been 31 new cases of yellow fever and three deaths. Thirteen of those cases and two of the deaths came...

1770 – The HMS Carysford wrecked on the Florida Reef off Key Largo and gave its name to the reef that was later changed to Carysfort....

1862 – The “Union ladies” of Key West presented the Army chaplain with a U.S. flag to raise over the regimental church. As it was...

1909 – Dutchy Melbourne, who was serving a 13-year sentence in the state penitentiary, escaped. He had been convicted of the murder of...

1886 – The Knights of Labor held a grand parade and torchlight procession through Key West. 1890 – Captain Hall of the schooner Nocatee...

1863 – Private William Paxson of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania died of illness at the Dry Tortugas and was buried on East Key. 1876 ...

1841 – The schooner Columbia , sailing from Boston to Mobile, wrecked at Mangrove Key, 9 miles from Key West. The passengers and cargo...

1861 – Charles Tift of Key West was arrested by the U.S. marshal for providing money to the master of the steamer Salvor (aka M.S....

1841 – A cargo of tobacco taken from the wrecked barque Theodore Corner could not be libeled for salvage because of the absence of the...

1797 – The brig Commerce of Baltimore sank in a hurricane near Key Largo. The crew spent three days on the island before being rescued...

1863 – The ship Mallory arrived at Key West from New York with many island residents who were returning home from their summer getaways...

1766 – The sloop Catherine from New London was wrecked near Key Largo. The nine people on board made it to land and over the course of...

1823 – Captain Ellison of the sloop Eclipse stopped at Key West and was informed that 30 naval officers and 50 enlisted men had...

1887 – Dr. Joseph W.V.R. Plummer was re-elected mayor of Key West over George B. Patterson by a vote of 471 to 380. 1889 – Yellow fever...

1815 – The ship Argus , sailing from Matanzas to Baltimore, was wrecked on the Basin Reef at Key Largo. The crew and a small part of the...