August 7
- Florida Keys History Center
- Aug 6
- 2 min read
1840 – Seminole warriors attacked and burned the settlement on Indian Key, an island community founded by Jacob Housman as a wrecking station to rival Key West. Killed during the raid was horticulturist and physician Henry Perrine.
1910 – The Key West Weather Bureau’s meteorological summary for July showed the mean temperature was 82.8 degrees, similar to what it had been in 1874 when the bureau began. The thermometer reached 90 degrees only three days of the month.
1916 – Dr. John B. Maloney died in Philadelphia at the age of 49. He was born in Key West and received his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908, he opened the Louise Maloney Hospital – Key West’s first private hospital. He also served as Mayor of Key West from 1897 to 1898.
1956 – The Florida Keys Gas Company held an open house at its new headquarters building at the corner of Catherine and William streets in Key West. Mr. Lonnie Williams was the local manager of the operation.
1966 – Funeral services were held for Captain Eckwood Solomon Jr. at the First Congregational Church with burial in Key West City Cemetery. Captain Solomon was killed in action in Vietnam.
1975 – Monroe County Commissioner Martha Wedel and County Road Department Chief Robert Dopp opened the Key Largo Bike Path. The path, complete with dips and rolls dubbed “Dopp’s undulations,” was built solely by county crews.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Open house at the Florida Keys Gas Company, 726 Catherine Street, August 7, 1956. Wright Langley Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
