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KEYS HISTORY: A NEW SPANISH FLEET MYSTERY
Hurricane warnings: sometimes you listen and sometimes you do not
This time of year always makes me a little anxious. Not only is it hurricane season, but it is the...
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KEYS HISTORY: FLAGLER’S DREAM COMES TO STORMY END
Henry Flagler arrived in Key West on Jan. 22, 1912. Thousands attended the heralded event. One of those attendees was a 12-year-old boy named Marvin Thompson. Decades later, he...
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KEYS HISTORY: CAPTAIN BAKER’S PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
In the mid to late 1800s, Captain Ben Baker was the King of the Florida Wreckers. His 13-ton, three-masted schooner “Rapid” was the pride of the Baker Wrecking Company.
In...
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JACOB HOUSMAN – THE WRECKER KING OF INDIAN KEY
Jacob Housman is remembered as the Wrecker King of Indian Key, among other things.
After sailing to the West Indies from Long Island, New York, as a young man of...
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WRECKER KING OF INDIAN KEY: A LOOK AT JOHN JACOB HOUSMAN
John Jacob Housman was born in 1799 on Staten Island, New York. The son of an oysterman, he was one of nine children. As a young man, he became...
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SPOILER: FIRING A CANNON AT A WATERSPOUT DOESN’T STOP IT
Darien, Georgia, is the second oldest planned city in Georgia. Located on the Atlantic coast, Darien is situated at the mouth of the Altamaha River. It is approximately halfway...