1835 – Lieut. D.A. Manning of the U.S. Army, stationed at Key West for many years, died on the island. 1928 – Ninety-nine-year-old...

1826 – John Adams, a sailor on the schooner William Ross , stole $1,600, clothing and a whale boat worth $150 from the schooner while at...

1869 – The inaugural meeting of the Cuban Patriotic Association was held at Key West, and the 125 members drafted a constitution and...

1844 – The ship Louis XIV , sailing from New Orleans to France, struck the reef near Indian Key with a cargo of cotton, coffee, lead,...

A Sue Moore School picture from the early 1950’s. Photo from Erma Stour’s scrapbook. 1836 – The U.S. schooner Motto left Key West with...

1843 – The ship Gerard of Bath, loaded with tobacco, was found by wreckers abandoned and full of water near Indian Key. It appeared...

1844 – The schooner Select , sailing from New Orleans to Barbados, was lost off Key Vaca. The cargo of provisions was saved by wreckers...

1846 – Key West was reported to be especially quiet because so many residents had left “to enjoy the pleasures of a northern summer.”...

Betty and Toby Bruce with Ernest Hemingway 1886 – Jefferson B. Browne was named Postmaster of Key West. 1910 – A horse of the Key West...

American Shoal Lighthouse 1857 – The ship Carrack , sailing from New Orleans to Liverpool with 2,700 bales of cotton, was struck by...

The BOQ (Fly Navy building) in Key West, circa 2000 1887 – The Marine Hospital reported a yellow fever epidemic in Key West had caused...

Rest Beach in Key West, 1930s 1819 – A boat with five men from the brig Ann arrived in Charleston. The brig had wrecked on a reef in...

North Roosevelt Boulevard in Key West, circa 1940s 1823 – Commodore David Porter sent five Spanish pirates to the Captain-General of...

1900 – The Mayor of Key West was George L. Bartlum. The members of the Key West Board Aldermen were: Charles R. Pierce, Joshua Curry,...

The Masonic Temple in Key West 1882 – Pineapple growers in the Key Largo area shipped 360,000 pineapples in the year’s season. 1900 –...

1847 – Six enslaved men who had been put to work on the construction of Fort Jefferson escaped on a schooner from the Dry Tortugas and...

Chuck’s Sandwich Shop, 537 Duval St., Key West 1898 – Private Robert Hunter, Company H 25th Infantry, died of typhoid in the Army...

Northwest Channel lighthouse, circa 1970 1774 – It was reported that English surveyor George Gauld had set out from Pensacola in May to...

Mario Sanchez 1823 – Lt. Charles Skinner of USS Wild Cat left a contingent of Marines and artillery at Key Vaca (Marathon) on the...

Nelson English 1850 – The ship Meteor , from Apalachicola bound to Liverpool, was off Key West with a signal raised requesting a pilot....