KEYS HISTORY: FLORIDA KEYS’ BAHIA HONDA ISLAND BUSTLED WITH ACTIVITY
The first surveyor general for British East Florida, William Gerard de Brahn, named the island Rice Island on his 1772 chart. The island’s Spanish...
KEYS HISTORY: MOSQUITOES BROUGHT MISERY & DISEASE TO FORMER UNION PRISON AT FORT JEFFERSON
The Dry Tortugas represent the tail end of the archipelago called the Florida Keys. In 1908, they were declared a wildlife refuge, in part,...
WILMA: A POWERFUL STORM THAT BROUGHT SURGE TO THE FLORIDA KEYS – OFFICIAL FLORIDA...
By Jim McCarthy and Alex Rickert
STORM HAD A COMPLICATED BEGINNING
Per a National Hurricane Center report, Wilma formed and became an intense hurricane over the...
KEYS HISTORY: TAVERNIER’S DOC LOWE WAS A MAN OF MANY HATS
Edward R. Lowe was born circa 1882 and first arrived in the Florida Keys following the conclusion of the Spanish-American War. During the war,...
KEYS HISTORY: SNAKE HUNTER & REVOLUTIONARY SEWER BROUGHT AN ATTRACTION TO MARATHON
Alma Cagle Bishop was born on June 9, 1902, and grew up in what she called the Texas boondocks. She hunted snakes on the...
KEYS HISTORY: THE STORY OF SPANISH MARIE RUM RUNNER
By every account, Marie was quite a woman. Born in 1903 to a Swedish father and Mexican mother, she grew up to be 6...
KEYS HISTORY: AFTERMATH OF INDIAN KEY ATTACK SEES ISLAND HANDED OVER TO GOVERNMENT
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a four-part series on the attack at Indian Key.
In the days after the 1840 attack at...
KEYS HISTORY: A WARNING SIGN TO AN ATTACK ON INDIAN KEY?
Editor’s Note: This is the third part in a four-part series on the attack at Indian Key.
During the Seminole War, the attack on Indian...
KEYS HISTORY: THE STORY OF CELEBRATED INDIAN CHIEF CHEKAIKA
This is the second part in a four-part series on the attack at Indian Key.
The University of West Florida’s John Worth has researched the...
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...
