Cedar Key, Florida Cedar Key, Florida Aerial view of Cedar Key and its outlying islands, illustrating the extremely small size of the city: The fork at State Roads 24 and 347 (the only two access roads) can be seen in the upper left.
Aerial view of Cedar Key and its outlying islands, illustrating the extremely small size of the city: The fork at State Roads 24 and 347 (the only two access roads) can be seen in the upper left.
Cedar Key is a town/city in Levy County, Florida, United States.
The populace was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland.
The Cedar Keys are titled for the easterly red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, once abundant in the area. While evidence suggests human occupation as far back as 500 BC, the first maps of the region date to 1542, when it was labeled "Las Islas Sabines" by a Spanish cartographer. An archaeological dig at Shell Mound, 9 miles (14 km) north of Cedar Key, found artifacts dating back to 500 BC in the top 10 feet (3.0 m) of the 28-foot-tall (8.5 m) mound.
The only ancient burial found in Cedar Key was a 2,000-year-old skeleton found in 1999. Arrow heads and spear points dating from the Paleo reconstruction(12,000 years old) were collected by Cedar Key historian St.
Clair Whitman and are displayed at the Cedar Key Museum State Park.
Followers of William Augustus Bowles, self-declared "Director General of the State of Muskogee", assembled a watchtower in the vicinity of Cedar Key in 1801.
The fortress was finished by a Spanish force in 1802. In the reconstructiondominant up to the First Seminole War, the British subjects Alexander Arbuthnot and Robert Ambrister used the Cedar Keys to bring supplies to the Seminoles. The Cedar Keys may have been a refuge for escaped slaves in the early 1820s, and an entry point for the illegal slave trade later that decade. 4 on the mainland adjoining to the Cedar Keys.
4" was later applied to a boat channel next to the fort, and then to a barns trestle and a highway bridge over that channel.) In 1840, General Zachary Taylor requested the Cedar Keys be reserved for military use for the duration of the war, and that Seahorse Key be permanently reserved for a lighthouse. In 1840, General Walker Keith Armistead, who had succeeded Zachary Taylor as commander of United States troops in the war, ordered assembly of a hospital on what had turn into known as Depot Key. (The island's name may reflect the establishment of a depot there by Florida militia general Leigh Read.
Army in Florida at the time was at Palatka.) Depot Key was the command posts for the Army in Florida, but Fishburne states command posts was not in a fixed place, but wherever the commander was. A hurricane with a 27-foot (8.2 m) storm surge hit the Cedar Keys on October 4, 1842, destroying Cantonment Morgan and causing much damage on Depot Key.
With the abandonment of the Army base on Depot Key, the Cedar Keys became available for settlement under the act.
Under the terms of the act, a several citizens received permits for settlement on Depot Key, Way Key, and Scale Key.
Augustus Steele, US Customs House Officer for Hillsborough County, Florida, and postmaster for Tampa Bay, received the permit for Depot Key, which he retitled Atsena Otie Key.
In 1844, he became the Collector of Customs for the port of Cedar Key, as well as for Tampa.
A postal service titled "Cedar Key" was established on Atsena Otie Key in 1845.
By 1860, two mills on Atsena Otie Key were producing "cedar" slats for shipment to northern pencil factories.
The Cedar Key Light was instead of in 1854.
In 1860, Cedar Key became the end of the Florida Railroad, connecting it to Fernandina on the east coast of Florida. David Levy Yulee, US senator and president of the Florida Railroad, had acquired most of Way Key to home the barns 's terminal facilities.
A town was platted on Way Key in 1859, and Parsons and Hale's General Store, which is now the Island Hotel, was assembled there in the same year. On March 1, 1861, the first train appeared in Cedar Key, just weeks before the Civil War began.
The USS Hatteras raided Cedar Key in January 1862, burning a several ships loaded with cotton and turpentine and destroying the barns 's rolling stock and buildings on Way Key.
Most of the Confederate troops guarding Cedar Key had been sent to Fernandina in anticipation of a Federal attack there.
Cedar Key was an meaningful source of salt for the Confederacy amid the early part of the war.
1884 map of Cedar Key The Eagle Pencil Company foundry was assembled on Way Key, and Way Key, with its barns terminal, surpassed Atsena Otie Key in population.
Repairs to the Florida Railroad were instead of in 1868, and freight and passenger traffic again flowed into Cedar Key.
The Town of Cedar Keys was incorporated in 1869, and had a populace of 400 in 1870. Early in his longterm position as a naturalist, John Muir walked 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Louisville, Kentucky, to Cedar Key in just two months in 1867.
Muir contracted malaria while working in a sawmill in Cedar Key, and recovered in the home of the mill's superintendent.
Muir recovered enough to sail from Cedar Key to Cuba in January 1868.
When Henry Plant's barns to Tampa began service in 1886, Tampa took shipping away from Cedar Key, causing an economic diminish in the area.
Growth in populace had led to the Cedar Key town limits being period in 1881 and again in 1884.
With the diminish in the small-town economy, the town limits were contracted in 1890. The 1896 Cedar Keys hurricane was the final blow.
Faber's Cedar Mill in Cedar Key, Florida, about 1890 President Herbert Hoover established the Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge in 1929 by naming three of the islands as a breeding ground for colonial birds.
In 1950, Hurricane Easy, a category-3 storm with 125-mile-per-hour (201 km/h) winds, looped around Cedar Key three times before finally making landfall, dumping 38 inches (970 mm) of precipitation and destroying two-thirds of the homes.
Cedar Key is home to the George T.
Cedar Keys Historic and Archaeological District Location Cedar Key, Florida Cedar Key's importance in Florida's history, which began as far back as 1000 BC with pre-Columbian surroundingion of the region, was recognized on October 3, 1989, by the federal government.
At that time, 8,000 acres (32 km2) in and around the town were added to the National Register of Historic Places under the title of the Cedar Keys Historic and Archaeological District.
Cedar Key Museum building The Cedar Key Museum State Park depicts the town's 19th century history and displays sea shells and Indian artifacts from the compilation of Saint Clair Whitman.
The naturalist John Muir visited Cedar Key in 1867 on his historic walk from Kentucky to Florida.
School Board of Levy County operates a K-12 school, Cedar Key School.
Levy County provides Cedar Key with a small-town library branch.
The Cedar Key Public Library is in the renovated, historic Schlemmer Rooming House. a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Cedar Key city, Florida".
Florida Historical Markers Program - The Cedar Keys: Pencils, Lumber, Palm Fiber and Brushes - accessed July 27, 2008 Roger Bansemer Gallery website: Cedar Key Lighthouse-Seahorse Key, Florida Florida Online Park Guide: Cedar Key Museum State Park a b "Cedar Key Museum State Park Anniversary".
(1993) The Cedar Keys in the 19th century.
Cedar Key, Florida: Sea Hawk Publications.
Cedar Key, Florida: An Illustrated History.
(2009) The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896.
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