Key West Florida Weekly

Key West Art & Historical Society invites public to experience free Key West Historic Marker Tours



 

Key West Art & Historical Society invites locals and tourists to experience a multi-platform, self-guided, and free tour program of Key West’s historic sites devised to highlight the island’s unique multi-cultural history and heritage through the Key West Historic Marker Tours website and phone app.

Originally designed and launched by Bruce Neff under the auspices of Key West Historic Markers Inc., the program merged with Key West Art & Historical Society in 2018. It consists of three primary elements: a map of cultural and museum attractions featuring 121 historic location markers that pay tribute to Key West’s colorful past, phone apps that act as a personal museum docent to support those taking the self-led walking tours and a comprehensive website at KWHMT.org that provides a virtual tour of Key West, historic background and community information, digital collections of local postcards and cigar box art and links to Google maps.

Key West has one of the largest historic districts with the densest amassing of historic frame vernacular buildings in the country. The island’s history encompasses unique architecture, Civil War forts, famous authors’ homes, connection to wars and revolutions, once thriving turtle and sponging industries, sunken treasure galleons, slave ships, Flagler’s railroad, boom and bust economies and much more.

Bruce Neff, founder of Historic Markers.

Bruce Neff, founder of Historic Markers.

To plan your own tour, visit the Key West Historic Marker Tour website at KWHMT.org, download the free Key West Historic Marker Tour phone app at keywest.oncell.com or call 305-507-0300 for a free Key West “Voices of History” phone tour. For more information, contact curator Cori Convertito, Ph.D., at 305-295-6616, ext. 112. Your Museums. Your Community. It takes an Island. ¦

 

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