June 2

Greenpeace ship in Key West in August 1993.

1909 – The schooner Edward W. Mudock arrived from Rockport, Maine, with the last shipment of stone for the new jetty in the Northwest Channel to Key West.

1926 – The Key West Arts Society was planning its schedule for next season and performers being considered were the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Elise Janis and her troupe of Four Artists, The London String Quartet, and the Universal Grand Opera Concert Company with Elvira de Hidalgo.

1933 – The Fifth Annual Tourists Sight Seeing Guide issued by the Key West Citizen was ready for distribution. The guide was 12 pages with a map in the center.

1946 – At the end of May, six people in Monroe County – five men and one woman – received unemployment compensation. Their “dole” totaled $176.

1966 – State Senator John M. Spottswood signed a contract to buy the Casa Marina and La Concha hotels for an undisclosed price.

1984 – The largest real estate transaction in Monroe County history occurred when the developer of the planned Port Bougainville and Garden Cove on upper Key Largo transferred 300 acres of land valued at $34,971,666 from his name to the development company.

1991 – The 83-foot Greenpeace ship Moby Dick was repairing and replacing mooring buoys in the Marathon Marine Sanctuary, which encompassed all waters three miles out from Fat Deer Key to the Seven Mile Bridge. The mooring buoys had been originally installed in 1989, when Monroe County created the marine park.  

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Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.

Image: Greenpeace ship in Key West in August 1993. Photo by Raymond L. Blazevic. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.