1866: Ex-Confederate Army Major Lansford Hastings, leading a group of 34 Southerners fleeing northern reconstruction, stopped at Key West on the way to Brazil. During their eight-day stay in Key
1851: Professor and naturalist Louis Agassiz of Harvard University delivered a talk at Key West summarizing observations from his recent fieldwork on the Florida Reef. Agassiz suggested, “There are different
1855: Florida Gov. J.E. Broome signed a law passed by the Legislature that made it illegal for any Free Black person who arrived at Key West by ship to leave
1857: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 5 and walked to the Salt Pond, returned home and bathed. At 8:15 a.m. barometer 29.60, thermometer 76, wind east 2,
1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Thursday, Jan. 10 Fresh Variable Winds making the best of our way to the Northward