- History·Monroe County
Bud N' Mary's Marina
Casting a fly to bonefish and tarpon in water barely deep enough to float a skiff was worked out on the flats around Islamorada, and this marina is where much of it was refined and passed on. The foun…
- History·Monroe County
Hurricane Monument
Hundreds of World War I veterans were living in federal relief camps on Lower Matecumbe and Windley Key on Labor Day, 1935, working on the road that would become US 1, when the most intense hurricane …
- History·Monroe County
Key West's Wreckers
Key West grew rich in the middle of the nineteenth century without farming or manufacturing anything at all. The money came from wrecking, the licensed business of salvaging ships that struck the cora…