November 1

The Overseas Highway ferry Florida Keys entering a ferry slip, ca. 1930.

1899 – The Key of the Gulf newspaper changed its name to the Key West Inter-Ocean.

1906 – The morning daily newspaper the Inter-Ocean and the Citizen, a weekly paper, combined to form the Citizen Publishing Company which began publishing a new afternoon daily, The Key West Citizen. Walter W. Thompson was president, Marcy H. Darnell business manager and T.T. Thompson treasurer.

1935 – The ferry Florida Keys left No Name Key at 8 a.m., and two hours later the ferry Key West departed Lower Matecumbe Key, both resuming regular service for the Overseas Highway for the first time since the destruction of the Labor Day Hurricane.

1940 – The re-built Strand Theater on Duval Street opened. The building had been destroyed by a fire in 1934.

1960 – The Key West-Havana ferry arrived in the night on its final trip from Cuba. There were 287 passengers and 86 cars, among which were an undisclosed number belonging to the American Embassy in Havana.

1975 – As a way of calling attention to Fort Jefferson’s role in U.S. history as the nation began to celebrate the bicentennial, four HAM radio operators began a multi-day broadcast from aboard the 39-foot sloop Morning Star anchored in the fort’s harbor.

1985 – Monroe County commissioners voted unanimously to retain Wilhelmina Harvey as Chairman and Mayor of Monroe County.

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

Image: The Overseas Highway ferry Florida Keys entering a ferry slip, ca. 1930. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.