Key West accommodation
travel guide to Key West
Key West is a locality of Florida, in the United States. It is located at the western end of the archipelago of the same name. The city occupies the totality of the last of the islands while a whole of small islands right in the east was transformed into an international airport. Key West accomodated writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. The American naturalist John James Audubon passed there also some stays. A railway and a motorway were built on a succession of bridges from Miami is nearly 200 km. Key west was attached in the year 1912 as last and southernmost island to the eisenbahnnetz the Florida East Coast Railway. The pro-Kopf-Einkommen was already before the highest of completely Florida, by the exploitation of ship wrecks, the trade with sponges as well as cigar production. By the completion of the railway binding to the mainland by Henry M. Flagler, leading across numerous bridges, key west besides an important port for only 145 km removes lying Cuba. Since key is attainable west thereby on the landweg, the southernmost point on key west since that time as the southernmost point of the mainland of the USA applies. The boundary stone there present with the label "90 miles to Cuba" is one of the usually-photographed objects of interest of the world. Likewise key west is well-known for its sunsets. 1927 were created the airline pan American World Airways in key west. The first flight on 19 October went as post office transportation flight from key west to Havanna on Cuba. Nine days later the route than line flight for passengers was introduced. The small shop office is to be still visited today. Ernest Hemingway lived starting from 1928 for some years in key west. Its house at that time is now the Hemingway museum in the Whitehead Street 907. The collapse of the stock market and the departure of cigar production after Tampa led key west 1930 into a deep crisis. This was strengthened by the fact that 1935 some of the railway bridges were destroyed by a hurricane and the reconstruction only 1938 as extension of the US Highway NR. 1 to be locked could. During the Cuba crisis 1962 money flowed after key west by the US Navy again strengthens, whereby the purged buildings could be restored. This made the island attractive for the tourism, which represents to today the main source of income. In the year 1982 avowed keys west due to intensified controls by the US authorities for short time its independence from the USA and the Conch Republic came to proclaiming.
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