April 12
- Florida Keys History Center
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1836 – Alden A.M. Jackson was named Postmaster of Key West.
1893 – The Key West Cornet Band was the “Champion of the State.” The officers of the band were: Charles A. Shavers, president; F.W. Adams Jr., vice president; F.E. Welters, secretary; N.F. English, treasurer, and Cubel Mickens, leader and director.
1898 – Lewis Otto was named Postmaster of Key West.
1936 – Norberg Thompson’s Overseas Transportation Company was awarded a contract to truck mail to and from Key West on an everyday basis, providing the island with daily mail service.
1937 – A party from Green Bay, Wisconsin, fishing with charter boat captain Jake Key brought in a Kingfish that weighed 121 pounds.
1949 – General Dwight Eisenhower and the Joint Chiefs of Staff left Key West after three days of meeting. General Eisenhower, who had been recuperating in Key West since March 28, went to Georgia for more rest and the other Chiefs returned to Washington.
1956 – Adlai Stevenson, Democratic candidate for president, spoke to a large crowd at Key West’s Bayview Park. Stevenson said of his visit to the island, “I wanted to come here to look over the facilities at the Little White House, just in case.”
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Overseas Transportation Company truck on US 1 in the Florida Keys, ca. 1940. Stetson Kennedy Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.