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KEYS HISTORY: TRAGEDIES & DEATHS ON INDIAN KEY

Editor’s note: This is the final of a two-part series. If ghosts are real, they would totally find Indian Key homey.  Without getting into all the...
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KEYS HISTORY: GHOSTS OF INDIAN KEY

There is an island in the Upper Keys that is home to a ghost town.  It is not a classic ghost town in the sense...
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KEYS HISTORY: INDIAN KEY’S PORT OF ENTRY DESIRES DENIED DESPITE BOASTING CONVENIENT HARBOR AND...

Driving up and down the Florida Keys, millions of people have traveled through Islamorada and over the series of bridges and fills that link...
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KEY WEST BACK IN THE DAY — THE ‘OLD’ PALATE OF ORDINARY TIMES

There are foodies who can taste a dish and instantly discern its ingredients, or who have such sophisticated palates that they can distinguish between...
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KEYS HISTORY: THE DAUNTING CONSTRUCTION OF BAHIA HONDA BRIDGE 

In J.W. Norie’s “Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Florida, the Bahama Bank & Islands,” he states: “And a large island on the east...
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KEYS HISTORY: PLANTATION KEY YACHT HARBOR UNDERWENT SEVERAL OWNERSHIP CHANGES BEFORE BECOMING A PARK

Plantation Key Yacht Harbor was developed by Dr. J. M. Renedo and Thomas Renedo. The brothers were born in Key West.  On Dec. 15, 1940,...
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TIME HASN’T BEEN KIND TO THE CITY OF WASHINGTON STEAMSHIP AT ELBOW REEF

By Thomas Scott Editor’s note: This is the final in a two-part series on the City of Washington steamship. Several months following the disaster, after...

THE CITY OF WASHINGTON MAY JUST BE THE MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT SHIPWRECK IN THE...

Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series on the steamship City of Washington and its involvement in the Maine battleship incident....
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KEYS HISTORY: WHY IS THERE A REEF CALLED LOOE KEY? 

I was done writing about the Great Florida Keys Road Trip when Mile Marker 0 came out in August. I need to save some...
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WRECKED STEAMSHIP OFF THE UPPER KEYS POSSESSES SOME HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE

By Thomas Scott Editor’s Note: This is the first in a two-part series on the steamship City of Washington and its involvement in the Maine...

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