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 who either died out or moved out. Most of most of the ones moved out at the end of the first spanish period. No one had a permanent population until the americans bought florida and commodore to keyorter was ordered west to establish the first naval station. Really established the first. Ivilization here followed by him was john the landwho bought from a spanish military officer. We consider the let
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