by Jerry Wilkinson
100,000 BC - Wisconsin Ice Age began and sea levels dropped.
35,000 BC - Perhaps first human migration to North America
24,000 BC - Sea level at it lowest (outer and inner reefs exposed) and sea water begans to rise to present level.
8,000 BC - Perhaps first humans arrived in north Florida. The water has risen and the Keys are much as today.
3,000 BC - Pottery making in Florida-Georgia area
1,000 to 700AD - Dates given to many of the present Upper Keys Native American archaeological sites
1511 - Diego Columbus occupied Cuba
1513, April 2 - Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain
1539 - Hernando de Soto landed near Tampa
1551 - Don Escalante Fontenada shipwrecked at age 13
1562 - French landed at Jacksonville
1600s - Keys Indians trading with Cuba
1607 - John Smith, Pocohontas and Jamestown
1620 - Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock
1620 - Cuba's population about 20,000
1622, Aug 6 - Hurricane sunk the Atocha, Rosario and Margarita.
1648 - Eleutherian Adventurers sailed to the Bahamas
1700 - Seminole Indians started arriving in north Florida
1733, July 14 - Spanish New Spain Amada Plate Fleet sank off Keys
1742 - British HMS Tyger sunk and survivors attacked by Spanish
1744, Feb. 5 - HMS Looe wrecked on 'La Pareda" (Looe Key)
1748 - HMS Fowey wrecked on Fowey Rocks
1763 - Florida became British territory and Spanish influenced the last major exodus of indigenous Indians
1776 - Revolutionary War - English East & West Florida were not part of the revolution.
1783 - Florida became Spanish territory again
1790 - Luis Fatio requested outpost Rodriguez & Tavernier Key
1805, March 3 - HMS Fly wrecked on Carysfort Reef
1814 - Francisco Ferreira given Spanish land grant for 'Marathon'
1815 - Juan Salas given Spanish land grant for 'Key West'
1817, June 15 - American merchantman Despatch wrecked on Carysfort Reef
1819 - Adams-Onis treaty made with Spain for Florida
1819 - Records of American fishing boats in Keys
1821, February 22 - U.S. ratified treat with Spain and Florida became U.S. property
1821, July - The Spanish flag was lowered and the American Flag raised at St. Augustine starting U.S. rule of Florida
1822, March 25 - Lt. Perry planted U.S. flag in Key West & USS Alligator wrecked
1822, March 28 - Lt. Perry sailed leaving Midshipman Joseph Moorehead & seaman Abslom Hobbs as the Navy's presence on the island
1822, March - A Mr. Heeming came from Mobile, AL to build the first house in Key West
1823, April - Commodore David Porter arrived at Key West and established Naval Station Key West
1823, July 3 - Monroe County formed as sixth county
1824 - Tallahassee chosen as state capital
1824 - Issac Cox purchased Key Vaca (Marathon)
1824 - Silas Fletcher built mariner's store on Indian Key
1826 - Capt. John Whalton's lightship Ceasar marked Carysfort reef
1828 - Key West incorporated. Population 421 (100 were fishermen)
1829, February - First Key West post office
1830 - First Florida federal census: Florida 54,477; Monroe County 688
1831 - Jacob Housman bought much of Indian Key
1832, April - John J. Audubon arrived at Indian Key aboard the revenue cutter 'Marion' to research local birds
1833, May 21 - Indian Key post office opened
1834 - Key West first fire department (Lafayette Fire Company)
1835, December - Beginning of Second Seminole War
1835 - Key West population 350
1836, Feb. 4 - Dade County created out of Monroe County
1837, June 26 - Capt. John Whalton and one crewman killed on Key Largo
1838 - Richard Russell family moved to Key Vaca
1840, August 7 - Indian Key Massacre
1842 - End of Second Seminole War
1842, August 4 - Armed Occupation Act
1844 - Marine Hospital built in Key West
1845, March 3 - Florida became a state under Governor William Mosely
1845, June - Construction of Fort Taylor began
1846, Oct. 11 - Severe hurricanes ravaged Key West.
1848, Feb. - Key West Marine Hospital established for mariners
1850 - Richard Pinder, Caroline and 2 sons farmed on Indian Key
1851 - Dr. John Gorrie patented making artificial ice
1852 - Carysfort lighthouse constructed and lighted
1853, March - KW 300 ton marine railroad tested satisfactory
1854 - Richard Russell moved family to Upper Matecumbe Key
1854, May - The first land owner of Key West, John Simonton, died in Washington, DC
1860 - Key West wealthest town per capitia
1861, Jan. 13 - Union Capt. Brannan secured Fort Taylor
1861, May - Key West has a special election for new non-confederate city officers
1861, August - No vessels could depart KW without an Oath of Allegence to the Union
1861 - Small railroad built between Ft Taylor and Martello Tower
1862, revised 1866 - Homestead Act
1865 - Dr. Samuel Mudd imprisoned at Fort Jefferson
1866 - Capt. Ben Baker farmed pineapples on Plantation Key.
1866 - Monroe County established its present boundaries
1868 - Large numbers of Cubans moved to Key West (Cuban Civil War)
1869, March - Dr. Samuel Mudd prisoner at Fort Jefferson pardoned and released
1869 - Vicente Ybor fled Cuba to Key West.
1870 - Key Largo Census about 60 people; probably at Lowesport, Planter, Newport, Basin Hills and High Mangrove Point
1870 - Josiah Wells became Florida's first black Congressman
1871, March - Benjamin Baker grew first commercial pineapples on Key Largo
1872 - Marcellus Williams surveyed Key Largo for the state.
1873 - Alligator Reef Lighthouse
1874 - Monroe County's first black sheriff, James Roberts
1876, April - The Fort Jefferson lighthouse was lit
1877 - First written record of a Key Largo School
1880 - Key West was largest city in Florida
1880, June 10 - Amos Lowe one of the first recorded Keys homesteads
1880, July - The lighthouse at American Shoal was lit.
1881 - Key West sent itinerate ministers to Upper Keys
1882 - Mary Ann Russell homesteaded 163 acres on Upper Matecumbe Key
1882 - Amos Lowe homesteaded 146 acres on southern Key Largo
1883 - Richard Pinder homesteaded 160 acres on Upper Matecumbe Key
1885 - Schooner Newport built at Key West
1885, March - The Florida census showed the KW population = 13,558 & a work force of 4,895
1886, April 1 - Fire started at San Carlos Hall and 50 building burned in the Great Fire of Key West
1886 - William Albury moved to Key Largo with son Beauregard
1887 - Lee County created out of Monroe County
1889, May - The Florida Legislature approved a new charter for the entire island to be City of Key West
1890 - Key West produced 100 million cigars in 64 factories
1890 - First ice plant in Key West (ice previously from northeastern states)
1891, Dec. 23 - Planter post office opened
1892, Feb. - Key West Customs collected $827,147,79 import duties
1892 - Jose Marti in control of all cigar labor unions
1894, March - Navy announced it will establish a 'coaling station' at Key West
1896, July 28 - Miami incorporated
1898 - USS Maine exploded at Havana (Spanish American War)
1899 - Electric street cars in Key West
1900, March - The Battleship Maine monument was dedicated at KW
1902 - Surveying began for a possible F.E.C. railroad to Key West.
1902, Feb. Board of Education requested early resignation of Sarah Ann Roberts because she had married
1903, March - Telegraph cable installed to Sand Key Weather equipment
1903, April - The Key West Coca-Cola bottling company started by Jose Piodella
1903 - Schooner Island Home built on Plantation Key
1905 - Construction started on Flagler Railway extension
1906 - Water froze in Tavernier, a major fish kill and the only known freezing in the Florida Keys.
1906, Feb. - Bridge completed between KW and Stock Island.
1906, March - Gov. Broward wrote sheriffs to enforce laws prohibiting taking sponges by dredging or diving
1906, October - Severe hurricane damaged railroad construction
1907 - Townsite of Islamorada platted
1908 - Scheduled rail service New York to Knight's Key
1908, June 1 - Islamorada post office opened
1908, September - Crainlyn Hotel on Grassy Key burned
1908, Dec - The FEC railroad called for 1,900 workers south of Knights Key after the work stoppage resolved. KWC
1908, Dec - The gulf Oil Co. spent a week looking for oil off of Key West - KWC
1908, Dec - TheMoCo Taxpayers Assoc oppposed building $1M Boot Key bridge.
1909, Feb - There were three moving picture showing in KW - KWC
1909, Oct. 11 - Severe hurricane struck the Keys
1910, Oct. 17 - Severe hurricane struck Lower Keys
1911, March 9 - Tavernier post office opened
1912, Jan. 22 - Henry Flagler traveled to Key West on the Rambler.
1912, Feb. 8 - Jewfish post office opened
1912, June - Capt. Charlie Thompson harpooned a 38 foot, 26,594 pound whale shark off Pigeon Key
1913, May 13 - Henry Flagler died in Palm Beach
1913, May 16 - Domingo Rosillo flew from Trumbo Point to Cuba
1917, Feb. - The Polk Key West directory listed 18 coffee shops, 41 cigar factories
1917, July - Groundbreaking for the Naval Air Station on Trumbo Point on land rented from the FEC railroad.
1919, September 10 - Severe hurricane damaged Key West
1920s - The Florida Land Boom
1920 - U.S. census-Rock Harbor 131; Tavernier 91; Plantation Key 53; Islamorada 180
1921, May 31 - Jewfish post office changed name to Key Largo
1824, Feb. - Key West KKK put on huge ceremony
1925, Feb.- Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover and part visited KW
1925 - First Key Largo subdivision
1926, Sept. 18 - Miami hurricane damages Upper Keys highway construction
1926, Lena Johnson was the first woman elected to be elected for public office in KW
1927 - Pirates Cove Fishing Camp opened by Irvin Wright
1927, June - The section of highway between Key West and Big Pine Key was opened.
1927, June - The salary for a county commissioner was increased from $100 to $150 a month by the state
1928, January 25 - The official Overseas Highway via Card Sound with ferries opened to/from Key West
1928, April - Pauline & Ernest Hemmingway arrived for the first time at Key West
1929, Feb. - U.S. Navy tested Monsen Lung near Smith Shoals for escape
1929, March - The state assume maintenance of the OSH
1930 - Roland Craig leased land to start Craig, Florida
1931, Feb - OSH ferry service to Key Vaca began
1931 - Huge train of 134 freight cars of Cuban pineapples shipped.
1932 - Tavernier drug store completed in Tavernier
1932 - Roney Investment Company bought Angler's Club as part of the Florida Year Round Club
1933, Feb. - The Key West Aquarium was dedicated
1934 - F.E.R.A. started WW-I veterans camps in Upper Keys to build a highway to replace the ferryboats
1934, May - Reportedly a temperature inversion allowed Havana to be seen from Key West at 6:00 p.m.
1934, July 1 - Key West bankrupt. Asked state to take over
1935, April - Joseph "Sloppy Joe" Russell moved his bar from Greene Stt. to Duval St.
1935, Sept. 2 - Labor Day Hurricane struck the Upper Keys
1936, May - Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt approved load of $3.6 million for the Overseas Highway
1936, June - Bernie Papy elected as the Monroe County State Representative
1937, June - The Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission was created by Florida Legislature
1937, November14 - Hurricane Monument dedicated in Islamorada
1937 - Marathon Chamber of Commerce formed
1938, March 28 unofficial, July 2 official - Overseas Highway via Card Sound completed to Key West
1938, July 2 - The Overseas Highway was officially opened at a Bahia Honda Bridge ceremony
1939, Feb. - President F.D. Roosevelt toured OSH and Inspected KW Naval station
1939, July - The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) established a work camp on West Summerland Key.
1940 - Karl von Cosel arrested "illegally exhuming a body" in Key West
1940, May - R.W. Craig won a runoff election for commiddioner of District 5
1941, June - A planned Marathon airport was placed on a list to be surveyed for construction
1942, April - The freighter 'Benwood' collided with the tanker 'Robert C. Tuttle' off of Pennekamp Park
1942 - Water pipeline and electricity throughout the Keys
1942, June - The only German U-boat (U-157) in So. Florida was sunk by the CG Cutter Thetis off the Marquesas Islands
1942, July - German sub U-571 sank the merchant ship Umatata near Fowery Rocks in the Upper Keys and the merchant ship Nickolas Cuneo off of Key West
1943 - US Navy took over Boca Chica from Army.
1943, Feb.- U.S. Marine Hospital closed at Key West
1943, April - German U-Boat # 155 sank the American merchant ship 'Gulf State' off the Middle Keys
1943, June - The US submarine R-12 sank in training off of Key West with 42 dead
1943, July - The U.S. Naval Blimp K-74 was shot down off of Marathon by German sub U-134
1944 - Jewfish Creek drawbridge and 18-mile stretch opened-still in use
1944, July 2 - Gov. Spessard Holland dedicared the newly shortened Overseas Highway needed to support the war effort
1945, December - Marathon Chamber of Commerce incorporated
1946, March - Stephen Cochran Singleton retired as KW Chamber of Commerce manager
1946 - Big Pine Inn closed.
1947, May 29 - The Upper Keys Chamber of Commerce organized.
1949, Feb. - Rebuilding of Little White House completed at cost of $60,000.
1950 - The "pink gold" shrimp industry well established in Key West
1950 - Hurricanes began to be given names
1950 - Grace Tauck set American record bonefish 12 lbs 14 1/2 ozs.
1950, March - New Big Pine Key prison camp open for public inspection
1950, May - The Monroe County census revealed the pop. = 29,957 of which 26,433 lived in Key West
1951 - a Florida Highway Patrol station built in Marathon
1951, March - The Florida Hotel Commissioner reported M.C. had 924 motel and 738 hotel rooms
1951, April - Marathon began preparation to incorporate (It failed) . Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR, bought 1 1/2 acres at Marathon. Also, a Cuban airliner with 39 aboard and a Navy SNB 5 trainer aircraft collided off of South Beach at Key West.with no survivors
1952, June 1 - Rock Harbor post office renamed Key Largo
1952 - Marathon volunteer fire department organized
1952, Feb. - Southern Bell Telephone began installing a new dial telephone at KW
1952, April - The first families moved into military housing at Peary Court and Sigsbee Park
1952, August - Dr. Count Von Cosel (Karl Tanzler) died at Zepherhills, FL at age 76. He left Key West in April 1941
1953, Feb. Ex-President Herbert Hoover spent 10-day fishing vacation at Key Largo
1953, Feb. - The Islander Drive-In theater opened at Stock Island
1953, Feb. 19 - Florida Keys Keynoter founded
1953, March - The plan for the protection of the Florida Keys deer was agreed upon in Washington with Rep. Bill Lantaff
1953, April - Unofficial Stock Island bordello 'Mom's Tea Room' closed on Stock Island under pressure by the Navy. The filming of the movie "Beneath the 12 Mile Reef" arrived at its hqs of the Casa Marina.
1953 - First class graduated from Coral Shores High School
1953, March - City Electric power line to Big Pine Key energized for first time
1953, July - A wildcat oil well was tested on Upper Key Largo by the Harry Morgan Company
1954 - Big Pine Inn reopened by Al Laughlin.
1954, March - The Sec. of Interior announced that 271,000 acres was deeded for the Everglades National Park
1954 - Road tolls removed from Overseas Highway
1954, March- Six U.S. Navy men were killed when two heliocopters collided over Fleming Key
1955 - Key Deer Refuge established
1955, March - the Gulf Oil Co. announced it would drill a test well northwest of Marathon
1955, March - A fire damaged the Caribean Club on Key Largo killing Miss. Jo Selby of Miami
1955, April - Southern Bell Co. installed dial telephones with prefixes 292 and 296
1955 - Construction of Venetian Shores subdivision began
1955 - Marathon incorporation vote failed
1956 - Ocean Reef Airport opened
1957, Feb. - Ex-Pres. Harry Truman visited KW for first time since being president.
1957 - Congress creates National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key
1957 - New fire fighting equipment purchased for the Upper Keys
1958, May - Shooting of the movie "Secret Cargo" began at Art McKee's Treasure Harbor on Plantation Key
1958, June - The Audubon house in Key West was purchased by the Mitchell Wolfson Foundation KWC
1958, July - The Fla State Attorney General ruled that the chair of the Anti-mosquito districr would be appointed by the Governor.
1958, Sept - The 4-lane bypass with MoCo first clover leaf to Boca Chica Naval base was completed. KWC
1958, Sept - The Anti-Mosquito district urged increasing taxes to buy new equipment - KWC
1958, Sept - The MoCo BOCC passed budget with no increase in millage rate (Development was increasing)
1858, Sept - MoCo School Board reported Black students at Douglas School 602, Grace Jones 29 and Burlington (KL) 15. KWC
1958, Dec - MoCo estimated population was 46,300 by U of F. - KWC
1958, Nov - The Grassy Key Poultry Supply Co. received it first supply of 5,000 hens.
1959, Jan - The SRD announced work beginning on the Boot Key bridge at Marathon - KWC
1959, Jan - Comm. Harry Harris said the the SRD agreed to raise the Key Largo Canal bridge four feet - KWC
1959, Feb - MoCo accepted deed for Marathon air strip. KWC
1959, Feb - The SW Museum of No. American Indian opened iat Marathon- KWC
1959, March- Johnny Anderson caught a Fla. lobster measuring 3', 2" wrighing 7.75 pounds - KWC
1959, March - The Navy made its last operational flight with an 'airship' (blimp) from KW to Glynco, GA - KWC
1959, June - The county was presented title for the new library at 700 Fleming Street.
1959, Oct. 2 - First issue of Florida Keys Sun weekly newspaper
1959, Nov. 13 - A and B Grocery of Islamorada closed.
1960 - Governor Collins dedicated John Pennekamp State Park
1960, March - Ex-president Harry Truman visits Upper Keys
1960, April 1 - Tobacco Road Building Materials opened in old Rock Harbor school building
1960, April - Angus Boatwright boat Muriel III stolen and Angus killed.
1960, Sept. 9-10 - Hurricane Donna
1961, Jan. 13 - Digging started again on Cross Keys Waterway (Cut)
1961, March 19 - Matecumbe prefix is 664
1961, March 3 - Dedication of Key Largo Waterway (Cut)
1961, March - The beach on So. Roosevelt was named Smathers Beach (Sen. George Smathers)
1961, July 8 - Rural mail delivery started
1961, Nov. 30 - Twice weekly delivery of Keynoter started
1962 - Missile sites built for the Cuban Missile Crisis
1962, May - 420 Navy housing duplex units were being occupied at Sigsbee Island
1962, May - Hilario "Charlie" Ramos won the State Representative over Bernie Papy after 28 years in the position.
1963, Feb. 1 - BOCC met outside of Key West at Tavernier, but could not conduct business
1963, March - The Oldest Bar & Cistern Room on Greene St. first know bar for the "gay."
1963, March - The Hemingway house on Whitehead Street bought by Bernice Daniel
1963, April - Two Key West Citizen reporters found nine Cubans at a secret training camp on No Name Key
1963, July 1 - ZIP codes in effect
1963 Filming began in KW for the movie 'Man in the Water, with Mark Stevens by the Key West Film Co.
1963, Sept. 17 - Layton incorporated
1963 - Marvin D. Adams Waterway completed
1963, December 5 - Two Beechcraft mosquito planes arrived Marathon
1964, March - Army COE awarded contract to build Nike Hercules site at Key Largo
1964, March 19 - Ex-president Truman and wife 3-week vacation at Duck Key
1964, March - A Cuban Soviet-built helicopter was hijacked and landed undetected at the Key West airport
1964, May - The Key West made movie "Escape From Hell Island" premiered at San Carlos.
1965, May - The main Key West port channel was dredged to 35 feet of depth
1965, June 21 - The Key West Garrison Bight causeway was opened.
1964, August - Islandia road dropped from plan - the community continues
1965, August - Burlington School closed, desegradation completed
1965, Sept. 7/8 - Hurricane Betsy
1965, Sept. 30 - US 1 4-laning began in Tavernier
1966, April - County considered funds for Lignum Vitae causeway
!966, July - Groundbreaking for the FKAA world's largest seawater conversion (RO) plant at Stock Island.
1966, July 28 - George Albury Red Cross hurricane house on Plantation Key was razed
1966, Oct 4 - Hurricane Inez ran length of Keys
1967, March 10 - Plantation Key, Marathon & KW sub-courthouses dedicated
1967, June - Baseball's Ted Williams won the Islamorada Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament
1967, Oct. 15 - Jewfish bridge tenders house torn down
1968 - A new bridge between Big Pine Key and No Name Key opened
1968, April - Narional Air Lines made the first jet landing at Key West Intl. airport
1968, Nov. 28 - State eyed Indian Key for $250,000
1969, July 2 - New Card Sound Bridge dedicated and opened
1969, July - Big Pine Key post office opened
1969, Oct. 1 - Long Key State Park dedicated
1969, December - DC-3 aircraft added to mosquito control
1970, May 12 - Cock fighting approved on N. Key Largo as long as no gambling
1970, Oct. 19 - Governor's award to Jerry Ellis and Sandy Sprunt
1971 - Florida bought Indian, Sand and Lignum Vitae Keys as future State Park sites.
1972 - Port Largo airport opened and the old Monroe County Hospital on Stock Island begion conversion for the offices of Monroe County.
1973, October 17 - Key West Submarine base closed
1974, March - Key West Naval Station closed ending 151 years of operation
1975, April 15 - Keys proclaimed an Area Of Critical State Concern
1975, Feb - New world record 'tarpon' caught by Gus Bell
1976, Feb - Rep. William Freeman filed bill outlawing taking of marine corals.
1976, April - Telephone number 911 installed throughout Monroe County
1976, July 7 - Historical Preservation Society of the Upper Keys incorporated
1976, Feb. - Monroe County approved pay raises for 16 of its 300 on the payroll
1976, April - Convicted Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto reported missing (No trace found)
1976, August 7 - First Indian Key Festival
1976, Dec - KW took over the Key West Golf Course - KWC
1977, Jan. 15 - Historical Society placed a railroad plaque on Indian Key Fill
1977 - Congress appropriated $109 million for bridges.
1978 - Big Pine Inn burned
1978, March - Wm. E.P. Roberts hired as first County Administrator at $30,000/yr.
1978, April - Former President Richard Nixon and wife 'Pat" stayed at the Ocean Reef Club
1978, July - Ground breaking for a new Monroe County Mosquito Control administration building on Stock Island
1978, October - The first 'Fanasty Fest' parade in Key West (26 floats)
1978-1983 - New Overseas Highway built ($109 million)
1972, March - A Lawrence Gomez announced that he would not submit a 3,000 name petition to abolish the city of KW
1980, April - A large fleet of private and commercial boats left Key West for Muriel for refugees and Gov. Graham ordered the Florida National Guard to Key West to assist the handling of Cuban refugees..
1980, May - "Freedom Flotilla" Cuban refugees now exceeds 74,000. A total of 625 boats had been seized bringing in refugees.
1980, June - Key West and the county requested federal tourism assistance as the flow of Cuban refugees had cut tourism in half.
1981, March - Truck with backhoe struck 7-Mile Bridge propane tank killing bridgetender
1981 - Replacing the old 18" water pipeline with new 36"/24" pipe
1982, April - The last concrete span of the 7-mile bridge was put in place
1982, April 20 - Feds established checkpoint for illegial aliens
1982, April 22 - Key West seceded from the nation with a mock ceremony thus creating the Conch Republic
1982, Sept. 20 - New Marathon Library dedicated
1982, Nov - Alison Fahrer defeated Henry Rosenthal by one vote for county commissioner Dist 4
1983, April 12 - Groundbreaking for TV translator system
1983, June 20 - A tornado hit Lower Sugarloaf Key
1983, Oct. 25 - The 'Red Caboose' arrived Islamorada
1983, Nov. 22 - The TV translator on the air, but with problems
1984, November - Big Pine Key got its own traffic light
1984, June - 300 acres were transferred to Port Bouganvillea/Garden Cove Key Largo resort project for $35 million.
1985, July - Mel Fisher found the Atocha
1986, March - KW approved sewer plant on 10-acres Fleming Key
1989, June - The Key West Citizen changed from an afternoon to a morning newspaper
1992, June - The Turtle Hospital at Marathon was dedicated
1992, Aug. 24 - Hurricane Andrew came ashore at Cutler Ridge in Dade County
1994, Feb. - Sheriff moves inmates from Fleming Street jail to Stock Island
1995, Feb. - KW- DOD announced changing name of Naval Air Station to Naval Air Facility
1996, March - M.C. voted 2 to 1 against the translator for free TV
1996, March - Five people were killed in the crash of a seaplane taking off of Sigsbee basin
1998, January. 25 - Islamorada Incorporated
1998, Sept. 25 - Hurricane Georges
1998, Oct. 4 - Tropical Storm Mitch tornados
1999. Feb - New Mariner's Hospital opened at Tavernier
1999, October 15 - Hurricane Irene