1835 – The new pilot schooner Caroline was at Charleston, bound for Key West. The schooner belonged to Oliver O’Hara and was a gift presented to him by insurance offices across the U.S. “for his strict and careful attention to their interests, while filling a responsible situation at Key West.”
1873 – Lodge No. 13 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was instituted at Key West.
1935 – The final report for the 1935 Florida census showed there were 12,470 people in Key West and 865 living in other areas of Monroe County.
1943 – The Seventh US Naval District, headquartered at Key West, was seeking to enlist 119 men with police experience between the ages of 38 to 50 and to serve as shore patrolmen.
1955 – Mike Warren, who operated the stand in the lobby of the Federal Building on Simonton Street for the Florida State Service for the Blind was named “Lion of the Year” by the Key West Lions Club.
1983 – Old Town Trolley, owned by Ed Swift and Chris Belland, purchased the Conch Train from Miami-based Wometco Enterprises. Bill and Olive Kroll, who founded the train in January 1958, had sold it to Wometco in 1972.
1994 – A “crack house” on Terry Lane in Key West was closed and the tenants evicted after members of the “Key West Our Neighborhoods” organization repeatedly appealed to police and city officials about the nuisance property.
Information compiled by Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: Navy shore Patrol at Key West, ca. 1940. Wright Langley Collection. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.