November 9

Aerial view of Trumbo Point Annex Naval Air Station on September 9, 1941.

1828 – The act incorporating the City of Key West was repealed and a new one incorporating the Town of Key West was passed by the territorial council.

1831 – The U.S. schooner Shark arrived in Key West after having made a cruise to the mainland, where “valuable tracts of land and live oak timber of large dimension and superior quality, which were previously unknown to the Government of the United States” were discovered.

1937 – The following officials were winners in the city election: Willard M. Albury, mayor; Wallace Pinder, clerk; Ivan Elwood, chief of police; Alberto Camero, captain of night police; William T. Archer, treasurer; Samuel B. Pinder, tax collector/assessor; Thomas S. Caro, police justice and commissioners Earl Adams, William Freeman, W.T. Dougherty Jr., Will E.P. Roberts, James Roberts, Roy Fulford and W.P. Archer.

1940 – The Navy was building 50 housing units for low-income personnel at the Trumbo Air Base – 17 two-family and 16 single-family buildings. 

1950 – Four Key West boys admitted to the FBI that they had cut the Key West-to-Havana telephone cable and removed a 100-foot section of the line. They found the cable lying in six feet of water off the southern shore of the island, figured it was abandoned, and fished it up for salvage.

1998 – The Lower Florida Keys Hospital District Commission voted to negotiate a 30-year lease of the Lower Keys Health System to Naples-based Health Management Associates, Inc. A successful deal would eliminate the need for local hospital taxes.

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

Image: Aerial view of Trumbo Point Annex Naval Air Station on September 9, 1941. From the Ida Woodward Barron Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.