1836 – The schooner Harriett, sailing from Baltimore to Mobile with a cargo of dry goods, groceries, and provisions, and wrecked on Coffins Patch, was brought into Key West by wreckers.
1966 – Monroe County Mayor Gerald Saunders and Key West Mayor Kermit Lewin cut the ribbon to open the new showroom for K-T Motors on Eaton Street.
1989 – More than 2,000 Keys residents, with the rallying cry of “No Valdez in the Keys,” gathered outside the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center to demonstrate against offshore Florida oil drilling. A presidential task force on offshore oil exploration was meeting in the theater.
1991 – Elizabeth Gordon, D.V.M. joined Dr. Beatriz Lopez and Richard Moretti at Marathon’s Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project to work toward finding the cause of fibropapilloma tumors in sea turtles.
2004 – Approximately 200 residents and businessowners met with Key West commissioners to discuss ways to improve Duval Street. Many feared the city’s commercial strip had become a combined boardwalk and carnival midway, plagued by open drinking, noise, buskers, panhandlers, and general disarray.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: K-T Motors at 1111 Eaton Street, Key West, ca. 1965. Photo by Don Pinder. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.