November 4
- Florida Keys History Center
- 15 hours ago
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1864 – Henry Hamilton and Darius Stokes, members of the 2nd USCT, were executed at Key West, probably by a firing squad, for mutiny that occurred at Ship Island, Mississippi, in December 1863.
1925 – Monroe County Commissioners awarded the Tidewater Construction Co. a $682,230 contract to build a boulevard around Key West.
1935 – Construction of a new swimming pool along Roosevelt Boulevard began, which, when completed, would “resemble a South Sea atoll…since it will utilize the open water of the sea and yet be enclosed sufficiently to keep out any marine life.”
1947 – In the Key West city election A. Maitland Adams and Louis Carbonell were elected to four-year terms as commissioners and Fred J. Dion was elected to a two-year term. Adams as the commissioner with the highest vote total was elected mayor by the commission.
1955 – Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G., the First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff for Great Britain, accompanied by U.S. Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Arleigh Burke, arrived in Key West for a demonstration cruise aboard the Navy’s cutting-edge submarine USS Albacore.
1974 – The Key West City Commission passed two ordinances that prohibited high-rise buildings in the city.
1997 – Sheila Mullins was elected Mayor of Key West, the first woman to hold that office. Percy Curry was re-elected to the city commission.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Naval Staff for Great Britain, in Key West November 1955. Photo by Lewis McLain. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
