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History of Key West
The Seal of Key West represents the Conch Republic in the island's culture
Landmarks African Cemetery at Higgs Beach USS Amesbury Key West Aquarium The Armory (Key West) Audubon House and Tropical Gardens Captain Tony's Saloon Key West Cemetery U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, Key West Station Ernest Hemingway House Fogarty Mansion (Fogarty House) Eduardo H. Gato House Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage Key West Historic District Key West Bight Key West Lighthouse Mallory Square Martello Gallery-Key West Art and Historical Museum U.S. Naval Station (Key West, Florida) Pan Am Dr. Joseph Y. Porter House Old Post Office and Customshouse (Key West, Florida) Sloppy Joe's Southernmost House Thompson Fish House, Turtle Cannery and Kraals Truman Annex Harry S. Truman Little White House Veterans of Foreign Wars Walter R. Mickens Post 6021 and William Weech American Legion Post 168 West Martello Tower Fort Zachary Taylor Notes that a majority of this list contains sites that have been added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places or as a U.S. National Historic Landmark
People Conch (people) Henry Flagler John Geddes (politician) Ernest Hemingway Winslow Homer Indigenous people of the Everglades region José Martí Vicente Martinez Ybor Matthew C. Perry Mel Fisher Carl Tanzler Harry S. Truman
Topics Sinking of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha Key West Street Car Company The Great Fire of Key West (1886) Isaac Allerton (shipwreck) Overseas Railroad Overseas Highway Wrecking in the Florida Keys 1935 Labor Day hurricane Cubana de Aviación Flight 493 Key West Agreement Mariel boatlift Conch Republic Hurricane Wilma
Timeline Pre-history, until 1513 Spanish Rule, 1513–1763 British Rule, 1763–1783: American Revolutionary War, 1775–1783 Spanish Rule, 1783–1821: War of 1812, 1811–1814 U.S. Territorial Period, 1822–1845: Florida Wrecking Act, 1823 Federal Wrecking Act, 1825 Statehood, 1845–present: Fort Zachary Taylor, 1845 Ordinance of Secession, 1861 Civil War, 1861–1865 East Gulf Blockade Squadron, 1861 States
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• Vic Albury (1947–2017), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Bronson Arroyo (born 1977), MLB baseball player
• John James Audubon (1785–1851), naturalist, painter, ornithologist
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979), poet, short-story writer
• Jimmy Buffett (1946–2023), singer-songwriter, musician, author, actor, businessman
• Truman Capote (1924–1984), novelist, screenwriter, playwright, actor
• Eric Carle (1929–2021), children's book author and illustrator most famous for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• David Allan Coe (born 1939), musician
• Tom Corcoran (1943–2023), author
• Sandy Cornish (1793–1869), farmer, businessperson, civic leader, former slave
• Mark Gormley (1957–2024), musician
• Paul Cotton (1943–2021), musician
• John Dewey (1859–1952), philosopher, educational reformer, psychologist
• John Dos Passos (1896–1970), novelist
• Stepin Fetchit (1902–1985), vaudevillian, comedian, film actor
• Mel Fisher (1922–1998), treasure hunter, best known for finding the 1622 wreck of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha
• Robert Fuller (born 1933), actor
• Khalil Greene (born 1979), MLB shortstop
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), novelist, short-story writer, journalist, sportsman
• Winslow Homer (1836–1910), landscape painter, printmaker
• Mike Leach (1961–2022), college football coach
• Alison Lurie (1926–2020), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, academic
• Stephen Mallory (1812–1873), U.S. senator
• James Merrill (1926–1995), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• George Mira (born 1942), football player
• Diana Nyad (born 1949), author, journalist, motivational speaker, long-distance swimmer; famous for being the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West without the aid of a shark cage
• Bettie Page (1923–2008), pin-up model
• John Patterson (born 1967), MLB second baseman
• Quincy Perkins (born 1980), filmmaker
• Boog Powell (born 1941), baseball player
• David Robinson (born 1965), basketball player
• Thomas Sanchez (born 1943), author
• Shel Silverstein (1930–1999), author, cartoonist and musician
• Shane Spencer (born 1972), MLB outfielder
• Randy Sterling (born 1951), MLB pitcher
• Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
• Keith Strickland (born 1953), musician, songwriter, founding member of The B-52s
• Michel Tremblay (born 1942), Canadian playwright
• Harry S. Truman (1884–1972), U.S. president
• Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), fifth president of Georgia Institute of Technology, colonel, inventor
• Dick Vermeil (born 1936), former Super Bowl Champion NFL Coach
• Tony White (born 1979), defensive coordinator for the Nebraska Cornhuskers
• Tennessee Williams (1911–1983), author
• David Wolkowsky (1919–2018), real estate developer, preservationist
• Stuart Woods (1938–2022), novelist

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