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Check out the online version of Celebrating Our Past, a history feature that Saturdays in the Keynoter. It features the work of Dan Gallagher and other Keys historians and history buffs. It's a work in progress, so keep checking back. Send your own photos of Keys history to keynoter@keynoter.com.

Posted: Sunday, November 15, 2009 09:34 AM EST

Passenger cars lie wrecked alongside the tracks in Islamorada, where they came to rest after the storm surge rushed ashore. (Florida State Archives photo)

Screams of men dying in the flooded Windley Key quarry stay with Charles Roberts 75 years later.

Posted: Friday, May 28, 2010 11:00 AM EDT

The Pride of Baltimore, a two-masted schooner similar to the Alligator, shown in a Coast Guard photo.

The only alligator sighting confirmed on this particular reef was the U.S.S. Alligator, a ship built in the Boston Navy Yard and commissioned in March of 1821. She was built to combat pirates and slave traders. The double-masted schooner was 85 feet long, armed with a dozen cannons, and sailed with a draft (depth beneath of the water) of less than 11 feet.

Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:00 AM EDT

The Tavernier Hotel is open for business again, and its latest owners hope the historic inn will succeed by offering the rarest of Keys finds — clean, comfortable rooms for less than $100 a night in a building steeped in local history.

Posted: Friday, August 13, 2010 09:15 AM EDT

The 25th anniversary of shipwreck salvor Mel Fisher’s discovery of the sunken Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha is to be commemorated Thursday through July 18 during Mel Fisher Days on the island the late salvor called home.

Posted: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:00 AM EDT

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