Commodore Porter News Today

90 miles from cuba, key west is closer to havana than miami. We learn more about the history of the island from the Monroe County librarian. We are in the Key West Branch of the Monroe County library. I house the archives for munro county. We try to keep all of the records we can, church records, plus some of the government records that other people have disposed of, a little bit of everything. I pulled out several things i thought would be of interest to the cspan audience. General items, vario...

FITZ JOHN PORTER’S father, Master Cmdr. John Porter of the U.S. Navy, died on Sept. 2, 1831. John had served on the command staff of the Portsmouth Navy Yard in

1847: The esteemed Key West coconut tree known as “Cocoa Nut” died, after having been damaged in the previous year’s hurricane. The tree had supposedly been planted by Commodore Porter

1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding. Remarks, Wednesday, April 3rd Pleasant weather awaiting the sailing of the Convoy which are making preparations