1894 – Walter C. Maloney Jr. died at the age of 55. A Florida native, he served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He served as Mayor of Key West from 1889 to 1891. He was also tax collector/assessor for Key West and Monroe County Attorney.
1908 – After 23 years plying between Tampa and Havana, the P & O steamship Mascotte ended service at Tampa and began a new route between Knight’s Key and Havana.
1946 – The William Weech Post No. 168 of the American Legion, under commander Earl McGee, received its charter.
1980 – Art McKee Jr. died at age 69. He was one of the first men to gain fame for finding sunken Spanish treasure in the water of the Florida Keys. He founded the Museum of Sunken Treasure on Plantation Key.
1991 – Carolyn Gorton Fuller tore down her famed “bottle wall” at the corner of Angela and Margaret streets in Key West because she was tired of repairing it. “For 20 years I was fixing it,” she said. The wall had been struck multiple times by vehicles.
1994 – The Pigeon Key Foundation announced plans to attract both visitors and residents by making the small island a “living museum” dedicated to the Overseas Railroad. A railroad car on Knight’s Key would serve as a visitor’s center, with shuttle service to Pigeon Key available.
1994 – The Keys-based Ecurie Vitesse Sports Car Club held a race of more than 20 cars in the Key West High School parking lot.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Carolyn Gorton Fuller with Bottle Wall on Angela Street on March 23, 1991. Photo by Nancy Klingener. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.