Comprehensive History of Indian Key. These pages by Jerry Wilkinson       These pages will contain multiple elements of the documented history of Indian Key. The following is an index so you may select or follow a tour established by me. Options will be at the bottom of each page.       It will be confusing at first and will get little less as we go along. There will be images, letters, and plain editorializing text. For a long but elementary history of Indian Key a reading of the three pages of "General History of Indian Key" is sufficient. The serious student should go through the tour, then print out selective pages for scrutiny and then study specific areas if interest selected from the index below. As every printer is different making two matching pages of the Indian massacre events may be difficult. They are set to be printed 8.5x10 inch as a portrait. I welcome some volunteer graphic artist to e-mail me a good rendition.       Some of the images are amateurish as I am not a graphic artist, but the content should be there. If not, please e-mail me and I will gradually update the pages. Jerry Wilkinson.  Click HERE for a brief general history Click HERE for only the Massacre history  Click HERE to begin the complete tour: Index to individual pages:  General History of Indian Key  Sketch of 1840 Indian Key   1733 Spanish Ship Wreck info  1967 map of the Indian Key area.  1978 map with distance scale. Maps of Indian Key and discuss Tropical Hotel  Author's version of the Massacre  Massacre according to Hester Perrine, 1840 Massacre according to Sarah Palmer Walker, 1925 Niles Register article of massacre, 1840  Indian Key family genealogies  Brief history of Indian Key Militia Company B  List of early Indian Key property transactions  Short biography of Dr. Henry Perrine  Biography of Dr. Henry E. Perrine  Biography of Lt. Thomas McLaughlin  1840 Navy lease letters   Biography of Charles Howe  Biography of Jacob Housman Brief biography of Richard Fitzpatrick  History of the Seminoles Indians  General Upper Keys Map  History of Wrecking  Civilian letters from Indian Key  Military letters about Indian Key Camp Bell Hospital letters, 1857  Antonio Gomez and Indian Key  Caryfort Lighthouse letters  Smith Mowry letter of 1856 History of the Spanish 1733 Shipwrecks  Miscellaneous newspaper articles - 1835  Jacob Housman according to E.Z.C. Judson, 1845  Fletcher affidavit of early Indian Key, 1835  Perrine family thank-you card, 1840  Civil War ship Indian, 1860s  Civil War ship Wanderer, 1860s  Dr. Strobel at Indian Key  John James Audubon at Indian Key  Dr. Waterhouse at Indian Key  William Hackley diary of Indian Key visit  Selection of eclectic snaphots

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