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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, various things that happened here over the many years we have been here. Key west had native americans wh...

1823: Commodore David Porter arrived and established the Naval Station Key West.

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

IN 1822, MASTER Commandant John Porter was second-in-command at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. He had served there since 1820 after arriving from his previous post at the

CIVIL WAR MAJOR General Fitz John Porter was born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1822. The name Fitz John (sometimes written as Fitz-John or FitzJohn) was chosen in accordance with an