Today in Keys History
1898: The bodies of five sailors, recovered from the Battleship Maine, which unk in Havana Harbor, were buried in the Maine Plot in the Key West City Cemetery.
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1898: The bodies of five sailors, recovered from the Battleship Maine, which unk in Havana Harbor, were buried in the Maine Plot in the Key West City Cemetery.
1837: Capt. Hiram Benner of the wrecking schooner United States reported at Indian Key that he had found a submerged, dismasted vessel near the Cape Florida lighthouse with a cargo
1871: Frederick Douglass arrived in Key West on the USS Tennessee with other members of the Santo Domingo Commission.