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Inside the aquarium. Built between 1932 and 1934, the Key West Aquarium is one of Florida's oldest aquariums. Original admission was 15 cents for adults and 5 cents for children.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission photograph shows damage on the left side of a boat that struck a navigational marker off Key West on Oct. 6, 2023. The crash killed a 46-year ...
The original bridge, a narrow two-lane facility, called the Thomas A. Johnson Bridge, was replaced by the Sen. Philip D. Beall Sr. Bridge on October 31, 1960. The original bridge, which had been in service since June 13, 1931, [ 3 ] was tolled and was signed as TOLL US 98 until the bridge bonds were paid off.
Following Spain's secession of Florida to the United States in 1819, the first permanent colonization of Key West began with American possession in 1821. [6] Legal claim of the island occurred with the purchase by businessman, John W. Simonton, in 1822, in which federal property was asserted only three months later with the arrival of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Mathew C. Perry.
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Anyone with information about the boat crash is asked to call the Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-3922. To make an anonymous tip, call Miami-Dade & the Florida Keys Crime Stoppers at 305-471 ...
USS Pensacola United States Navy: May 1912 A steamboat that was burned and sunk by the Navy in San Francisco Bay near Hunter's Point. San Rafael United States: 30 November 1901 A steamboat that collided with Sausalito off Alcatraz Island. USS Stewart United States Navy: 24 May 1946 A Clemson-class destroyer that was sunk as a target west of the ...
A Florida Department of Transportation camera shows the flashing lights of rescue vehicles on the Seven Mile Bridge in the Middle Florida Keys early Monday morning, July 18, 2022.