This is the site of the old cigar cottage. The City Commission on Tuesday is expected to approve the construction of a replica cottage.
Key West is looking to go back to its cigar-making past.
Posted - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 07:01 AM EST
History
Marathon's first schoolteacher, Sue Moore, lived in this house. Bruce Popham hopes to donate it to the city or a nonprofit group.
A historic house once owned by Marathon's first schoolteacher, Sue M. Moore, may soon be relocated -- if the city is willing to finance the move.
Posted - Wednesday, November 12, 2008 07:01 AM EST
Islamorada Mayor Cathi Hill presents historian and archeologist Irving Eyster with his own road commemorating his years of work in the Upper Keys.
On Thursday, the Islamorada Village Council renamed a local street to honor longtime Upper Keys historian and archeologist Irving Eyster.
Posted - Saturday, November 01, 2008 09:51 AM EDT
Sombrero Light, constructed in 1858 off Marathon, is easily accessible by boat.
Lighthouses are beacons on the sea and shore that help keep mariners safe.
Posted - Saturday, September 13, 2008 07:01 AM EDT
Diver Kelly Morgan surveys remains of side-wheel paddles from the steamship 'Menemon Sanford,' lost off Key Largo in 1862.
As underwater archaeology students carefully measured remains of the historic paddlewheeler scattered on the ocean floor off Key Largo, a tiny fish -- a blue-headed wrasse -- defiantly defended its territory.
Posted - Saturday, August 09, 2008 08:30 AM EDT
- A century ago...
Fishing the Florida Keys —This photo is undated but likely was taken in 1909 from a wharf somewhere along the western margin of the Key West Bight, now known as the Historic Key West Seaport. It shows extensive damage to the waterfront and watercraft in the wake of a severe hurricane. The storm of Oct. 11, 1909, might have been the cause. But the photo might also date from the hurricane of Oct. 17, 1910.
Posted - Sunday, August 10, 2008 07:41 AM EDT
- The Old Man who loved the sea
In his 1972 biography of Ernest Hemingway, James McLendon talks of Key West as the place where Hemingway became Hemingway. It was here that he came to love the sea, where he wrote most of “A Farewell to Arms,” and where he began to gather up the inspiration for what would become his most famous work, “The Old Man and the Sea,” a simply-told and tragic story of a fisherman’s battle with a giant marlin.
Posted - Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:07 AM EDT
- Promoting the preservation of history
Tavernier. The French name stands out among the Keys’ islands and towns that carry more common Spanish and Native American titles.
Posted - Thursday, September 04, 2008 03:07 PM EDT
- Irving Eyster Remembers Hurricane Donna
At about 2 a.m. on September 10, 1960, the Keys experienced hurricane Donna, which had a force comparable to that of hurricane Andrew. It made landfall in the Marathon area, centered on Key Vaca as a category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It had estimated maximum sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts of up to 180 mph with a storm surge of 13 feet.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
- Bettye Chaplin: Success grows from deep roots
Bettye and Jim Chaplin have built their lives on real estate in Marathon.
Marathon’s Bettye Chaplin says her success in the real estate business can likely be traced back to the impact a famous scene in the classic 1939 movie “Gone With the Wind” had on her mother, Lida Bateman.
Posted - Sunday, July 13, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
