KEYS HISTORY: HURRICANE DISRUPTS HIGHWAY & VETERAN WORK CAMPS
Editor’s Note: This is the final in a two-part series on the history behind the arrival of veterans and their contributions to the Florida Keys through the...
KEYS HISTORY: PRESERVING OLD WATER COLLECTION SYSTEMS FOR GENERATIONS TO COME
Several months ago, I was invited to one of the local Key Largo schools to talk with some students about the use of cisterns in early pioneer...
KEYS HISTORY: SHARK PROCESSING PLANT BROUGHT TALES & SMELLS TO BIG PINE KEY
Big Pine Key is found a couple of islands south (or really west) of the Seven Mile Bridge, and is one of the Lower Keys. It is...
KEYS HISTORY: THIS ISLAND WAS KNOWN FOR PIGEON FLOCKS & A RAILROAD WORKER HUB
In the Florida Keys, we all have our favorite islands. My favorite, Indian Key, has an incredible story, and I have written an inordinate number of columns...
KEYS HISTORY: UNRELIABLE FERRIES PROMPT ROAD CONSTRUCTION BETWEEN ISLANDS
The Key West Extension of Henry Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway did not bring loads of tourists to the island chain. The building of State Road 4A,...
KEYS HISTORY: ISLAND CONFLICTS LEAD TO INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS
Monroe County has seen significant change over the last 200 years, and has been affected by a few wars. Maybe the first was the Seminole War which...
KEYS HISTORY: WRECKING, SPONGING & CIGAR ROLLING WERE THRIVING INDUSTRIES ON THE ISLANDS
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a four-part series on Monroe County’s 200th year.
When the second escalation of the Seminole War erupted in 1835, fear spread...
KEYS HISTORY: FLORIDA’S SIXTH COUNTY IS BORN 200 YEARS AGO
Mathew Perry planted the American flag at Key West in 1822. Commodore David Porter was instructed to establish a military depot on the island the following year...
KEYS HISTORY: EXCLUSIVE COCOLOBO KEY CLUB SAW THE WEALTHY, YACHTS & THE RADIOPHONE
Adams Key is one of nearly 50 islands within the Florida Keys archipelago located north of Key Largo. The island is tucked behind Elliott Key; Caesars Creek...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE HORRORS
By the end of the 17th century, the capture of men and women for colonial distribution in European markets was in full swing. The Atlantic slave trade...
