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 designed 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 and 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.

The Custom House Museum, 281 Front Street, is one of four museums stewarded by Key West Art & Historical Society where locals can enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of each month.

 

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.

 

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 x112.Your Museums.  Your Community.  It takes an Island.

 

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Bruce Neff, founder of Key West Historic Markers, Inc., stands before the c. 1875 William Kerr house at 410 Simonton Street, location of Historic Marker number 120 on the Key West Historic Marker Tour. The location was once the private residence of renowned architect William Kerr, whose works include the Custom House, one of five entities stewarded by Key West Art & Historical Society and is also part of Key West Historic Markers, Inc.

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