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Key West doesn’t have the best record with the time capsule thing.

The crew from the USS Shark raised the American flag over Key West for the first time on March 25, 1822. Now the ship's logbook is part of local historic archives.

The crew from the USS Shark raised the American flag over Key West for the first time on March 25, 1822. Now the ship's logbook is part of local historic archives.

The towering Spanish lime tree with a trunk as wide as a sequoia and the enormous banyan tree were there that night in 1936, the only remaining witnesses to the

A new annual festival celebrating the food, music and heritage of Bahama Village and the Caribbean will kick off Friday, June 18, on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, when

WLRN News Corey Malcom, director of archaeology at the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum, recently played the boatswains whistle from the Santa Margarita for the first time. Seven ships from the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet sank in a hurricane off the Keys. And it was their valuable cargo, like gold chains, silver bars and emeralds, that kept treasure hunters like Mel Fisher going for until they finally found it. Now the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is taking a new look at that doomed voyage — and the ...