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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Adams Key, Ajax Reef, Alligator Reef, Anne's Beach, Archer Key, Ballast Key, Barracouta Key, Big Mullet Key, Big Pine Key, Florida, Big Torch Key, Bird Key, Boca Chita Key, Boca Grande Key, Boot Key, Boot Key Harbor, Caesar's Rock, Card Sound Bridge, Carysfort Reef, Conch Key, Florida, Conch Reef, Cottrell Key, Craig Key, Crawfish Key, Crawl Key, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Davis Reef, Duck Key, Elliott Key, Fat Deer Key, Fiesta Key, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail, Florida Reef, French Reef, Grassy Key, Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, Islamorada, Florida, Joe Ingram Key, Key deer, Key Largo, Key Largo, Florida, Key West, Key West National Wildlife Refuge, Knight's Key, Knockemdown Key, Layton, Florida, Little Conch Key, Little Mullet Key, Little Torch Key, Lois Key, Long Key, Long Key Fishing Camp, Long Point Key, Looe Key, Lower Matecumbe Key, Lower Sugarloaf Key, Man Key, Meig's Key, Middle Torch Key, Molasses Reef, Money Key, Monroe County, Florida, Moser Channel, Mule Key, National Key Deer Refuge, No Name Key, Ohio Key, Old Rhodes Key, Overseas Highway, Overseas Railroad, Pacific Reef, Palm Key, Pickles Reef, Pigeon Key, Pigeon Key Historic District, Plantation Key, Porgy Key, Ragged Keys, Ramrod Key, Reid Key, Rubicon Keys, Sands Key, San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park, Soldier Key, SS Valbanera, State Roads in the Florida Keys, Summerland Key, Sunset Key, Tea Table Key, Torch Keys, Florida, Torpedo Juice (novel), Tortugas Banks, Totten Key, Turtle Reef, Upper Matecumbe Key, Upper Sugarloaf Key, Vaca Key, Virginia Key, Windley Key, Woman Key. Excerpt: Key West is an island in the Straits of Florida on the North American continent at the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys. The island is about 90 miles (140 km) from Cuba. Key West is politically within the limits of the city of Key West, Monroe County, Florida, United States. The city also occupies portions of nearby islands. The island is about 4 miles (6.4 km) long and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide. In the late 1950s many of the large salt ponds on the eastern side were filled in, nearly doubling the original land mass of the island. The island is 3,370 acres (13.6 km) in area. Key West, ca. 1856In Pre-Columbian times Key West was inhabited by the Calusa people. The first European to visit was Juan Ponce de Leon in 1521. As Florida became a Spanish colony, a fishing and salvage village with a small garrison was established here. Cayo Hueso (Spanish pronunciation: ) is the original Spanish name for the island of Key West. Spanish-speaking people today also use the term Cayo Hueso when referring to Key West. It literally means "Bone Island" or "Bone Cay" (a low-lying island). It is said that the island was littered with the remains (bones) from a Native American battlefield or burial ground. The most widely accepted theory of how the name changed to Key West is that it is a false-friend anglicization of the word, on the ground that the word hueso ) sounds like "west" in English. Other theories of how the island was named are that the name indicated that it was the westernmost Key, or that the island was the westernmost Key with a reliable supply of water. Many businesses on the island use the name, such as Casa Cayo Hueso, Cayo Hueso Resorts, Cayo Hueso Consultants, Cayo Hueso y Habana Historeum, etc. In 1763, when the Kingdom of Great Britain took control of Florida, the community of Spaniards and Native Americans were moved to Havana. Florida returned to Spanish control 20 years later, but there was no official resettlement of the island. Informally the island was used
