1864 – Commodore Cornelius Stribling was ordered to assume command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron at Key West.
1907 – Regarding prohibition, the Key West Citizen predicted, “If a wet and dry election should be held in Monroe County right now, the county would go dry by a big majority.”
1910 – A large angel made of Italian marble and set on a base of Vermont granite was erected in the Key West Cemetery to the memory of 17-year-old Gladys J. Bates, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. W.L. Bates.
1911 – T.A. Sweeting had purchased the Weather Bureau building in Key West and was granted permission to move it from the Naval Station to his property on the corner of Eaton and Whitehead Streets.
1932 – The Post Office opened for business in the new Federal Building on Simonton Street at the corner of Caroline Street.
1939 – The Key West Citizen reported that over 200 tons of scrap iron had been sent from the Florida Keys to Europe in the past few years. Much of the metal came from structures at the Dry Tortugas and Naval Station Key West, as well as unneeded iron from the defunct FEC railroad.
1954 – Hollywood producer Hal Wallis was in Key West scouting locations for filming Tennessee William’s play “The Rose Tattoo.”
1974 – The Key West Fire Department began moving into the new station at the corner of Kennedy Drive and Flagler Avenue.
Information compiled by Tom Hambright, Historian Emeritus, and Dr. Corey Malcom, Lead Historian, Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.
Image: In September 1910, an angel sculpted of Italian marble by the Leland Company of New York was put on the grave of Gladys J. Bates who died at the age of 17. Monroe County Public Library, Florida Keys History Center.