KEYS HISTORY: HOW THE ATTACK ON INDIAN KEY BEGAN IN AUGUST 1840
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a four-part series on Indian Key.
Those first few dark hours of Friday, Aug. 7, 1840, altered the history of the...
KEYS HISTORY: WHAT KEYS WATERING HOLE HAS BEEN AROUND THE LONGEST?
There is a bar on Islamorada’s Windley Key with a sign declaring “the oldest most established liquor license in the Keys.” Without even considering some of the...
KEYS HISTORY: THE MORE YOU LEARN, THE LESS YOU KNOW
I moved to the Florida Keys in 2001, so I could live on an island, sip rum and finish my great Florida novel. It seems like a...
KEYS HISTORY: THOMAS EDISON’S KEYS VISIT ENDS WITH A GIFT
Thomas Edison is best remembered for his ground-breaking work with electricity and the phonograph. He is not so well remembered as an early Florida snowbird, which he...
KEYS HISTORY: HERMIT ARTIST CAPTURES THE KEYS THROUGH WATERCOLOR
This is the second in a two-part series on the Hermit Artist of Key Largo.
It seemed that Harry Sonntag, the Hermit Artist of Key Largo, found his...
KEYS HISTORY: HITCHHIKER BECOMES HERMIT ARTIST OF KEY LARGO
Editor’s Note: This the first in a two-part series on Harry Sontang, the Hermit Artist of Key Largo.
In 1960, a Kissimmee couple traveled to St. Thomas, Virgin...
KEYS HISTORY: PERKLYAND, DIXIE HIGHWAY & DISPATCH CREEK
Cruising up the Overseas Highway and out of the Florida Keys, there are two ways to drive over Key Largo. Just after Mile Marker 106, the usual...
KEYS HISTORY: PLANTER COMMUNITY GROWS THANKS TO BAHAMIAN FARMER
The pineapple was a New World treat allegedly “discovered” during Christopher Columbus’ second voyage to the New World. According to the story, on November 4, 1493, a...
KEYS HISTORY: JOHN GEIGER GOES FROM WRECKER TO WEALTHY MAN
Key West’s Audubon House was built after 1846’s Havana Hurricane ravaged Cuba, destroyed the Sand Key Lighthouse, and threw the double hurricane punch of high winds and...
KEYS HISTORY: HOMESTEAD CLAIMS REQUIRED CLEARING LAND, BUILDING HOME & PRODUCING CROPS
Even before Florida became a U.S. territory, Spain’s government tried to give away the largely uninhabited frontier land. In the Spanish territorial years, these efforts were called...
