1959 – The Key West High School baseball team won the Class A State High School championship with a 3-to-2 victory over Milton High.

1962 – A reception was held at Truman Elementary School to honor Miss Miriam Carey, who was retiring after 43 years of teaching. The beloved Carey had taught multiple generations of Key Westers, and she was named Florida’s “Teacher of the Year” in 1960.

1947 – The U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board authorized National Airlines to provide air service between Key West and Havana.

1955 – Mackerel and tarpon were running in Key West Harbor and dozens of fishermen were trying their luck from the Clyde-Mallory Dock.

1940 – Key Wester William W. Demeritt was commissioned a Captain in the Coast Guard.

Many people were traveling by train from Miami to Knights Key “solely for the novelty of the ride over the sea by rail.”

1925 – The Key West Police Department declared that, due to a rise in reckless driving, they would increase enforcement of traffic laws.

1899 - Judge J. Vining Harris held an open house at his new home at the ocean end of Duval Street.

1912 – President William H. Taft arrived in Key West via train.

1910 – The Key West Bar Association met to gather support for the formation of a new judicial circuit.