1828: The U.S. mail packet schooner Stranger was advertising to carry freight and passengers from Charleston to Indian Key and Key West on March 1. “If sufficient inducement is offered,
1818: The brig Sally, sailing from Rhode Island to Havana via Savannah, was wrecked on the Florida Reef. The crew and cargo were saved and carried to Nassau, but the
1830: William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose with the sun and read Gil Blas. At ten went up to the Courthouse. The motion I made yesterday for a
1864: Yellow fever was spearing among the population especially the military. By the time the epidemic ended in September there had been as many as 1,000 case with over 200