Today is Key West History
Compliments of the Key West Citizen
20 YEARS AGO
Even after the Monroe County Commission cut more than $1 million from the new budget, property taxes were 7.1 percent higher than the previous year.
During Reef Relief's Mangrove Sweep and Coastal Cleanup, volunteers collected 15,000 pounds of garbage.
Jesse "Woody" Woodruff was installed as president of the Key West Association of Life Underwriters.
50 YEARS AGO
Roy M. Speer, a Key West native, was named as a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Atlanta.
Congress authorized the erection of a memorial tablet at the Dry Tortugas honoring the performance of Dr. Samuel Mudd during the yellow fever epidemic of 1867.
Gov. LeRoy Collins, on refusing to sell bay bottom in Blackwater Sound, said, "The Keys are a rare jewel. We've got to get it out of our heads that this beauty spot has to be developed. Once it's developed, it's ruined."
100 YEARS AGO
Lt. Col. Albert C. Blunt, who had been stationed at Fort Schuyier, was ordered to command the artillery district of Key West.
Deputy Sheriff B.W. Bibdon arrived from Knights Key with four men charged with selling whiskey to railroad workers without a license.
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