1960 – Florida Governor LeRoy Collins dedicated and christened John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, the first wholly underwater park in the world. A crowd of over 1,000 attended the ceremony at Harry Harris Oceanfront Park near Tavernier.

1995 – The dilapidated structure of Key West’s famed Turtle Kraals Soup Cannery collapsed into the waters of the Key West Bight. The city rebuilt the building, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places.