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The small island of Key Largo is not only known for its beauty, but for its rich history. Shortly after Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, adventurer Ponce de Leon, in search of the illusive fountain of youth, sighted the Florida Keys on Sunday May 15, 1513.

 No record exists that anyone on the ship even came ashore, but later, other visitors did. The Spanish explorers named the island CAYO LARGO, the "long rock shoal".

While most of eastern North America has had continuous development over the past 200 years, the Florida Keys, discovered much earlier, remained undeveloped until the middle of the twentieth century.

Early settlers farmed Key Largo and the Upper Keys. Productive groves of Key Limes, tamarind and breadfruit were common, as well as fields of pineapples. The lower part of Key Largo became known as "Planters" which is now the town of Tavernier. Mosquitos, combined with almost yearly hurricane disasters kept expansion of Key Largo's small settlements of Planter, Rock Harbor, Basin Hills, and High Mangroves to a minimum.

Construction on Henry Flagler's 'railroad that went to sea', began in 1902 and was completed in 1912. It did little for Key Largo communities except to shift transportation centers from the ocean, where coastal schooners had provided the only mainland contact, to railroad stops. However, even this ceased with the destruction of the railroad by the Great Hurricane of 1935. The property was then purchased by the state for the new highway, known ever since as U.S. One or the Overseas Highway.

The Key Largo area, so close to the mainland yet so isolated from the amenities of 'civilization', has given its residents a strong sense of self reliance. Even today our water, electricity and supplies come from the mainland. Most of our businesses are locally and/or family owned and operated and include charter boats, dive shops, restaurants, lodgings and local media. A small part of the famous movie "Key Largo" was filmed here in 1948 at what is today the Caribbean Club, a local watering hole.

The laid-back atmosphere of our present community and it's residents reflect those quiet times when early social life revolved around church-related and other secular activities, in the absence of more cosmopolitan attractions and activities.

As you enjoy the soft tropical breezes of your new home, with world-famous reefs and fishing at your doorstep, pause to reflect on those days of the not-so-distant past, when people much like you lived very simply, facing nature at its best (and worst).

From:  Key Largo Chamber of Commerce

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