Today in Keys History
1861: Rains had fallen at Key West allowing Capt. E.B. Hunt of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to open new wells sufficient for horses and cooking at the southeast
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1861: Rains had fallen at Key West allowing Capt. E.B. Hunt of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to open new wells sufficient for horses and cooking at the southeast
1823: The U.S. Navy schooners Weasel and Fox, accompanied by two barges, left Key West for a cruise against piracy around Cuba.
1513: Ponce de Leon sighted the Florida Keys and becomes the first European to land in Florida.
1830: William R. Hackley recorded in his diar: Rose with the sun. After breakfast read the Prediction. About noon the Sloop Hyder Aly of New York, Captain J. Place, who
1830: William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose before the sun and put my dry specimens in a paper book. After breakfast read Hammond and commenced Samuel M. Phillipps’