November 7
1950 – Residents of Monroe County overwhelmingly voted for an Anti-Mosquito district. The vote was 1,781 to 170 for the special tax.
1956 – The Key West City Commission urged staff to make it a priority to clean and maintain the city-owned Wagner property at the north end of Simonton Street. The waterfront lot had once been the site of a pineapple canning factory, long since abandoned. Some residents hoped it would someday be a park.
1961 – Key West City Commissioner Harry Knight was re-elected for a second term, and John de Poo was also elected commissioner.
1966 – The Army Corps of Engineers announced that a $600,000 breakwater would be constructed in Key West Harbor to protect the bight area and the commercial fishing fleet docked there.
1989 – Captain Tony Tarracino was elected Mayor of Key West and Sally Lewis was re-elected to the commission.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: A boat near the ruins of the Wagner pineapple cannery at the north end of Simonton Street, ca. 1960. Wright Langley Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
