Today in 1861 the Civil War began. Key West, though located in a state that joined the Confederacy, remained a Union city the entire Civil War. Locals who supported the Confederates had to go North to join the South, and some did, including wrecking merchant Asa Tift. He, along with his brother Nelson, worked on designing and building an ironclad warship for the Confederacy.
Also on this day, but eighty-four years later in 1945, Harry S. Truman became President of the United States of America when his predecessor, Franklin Deleno Roosevelt, died. Both Presidents have visited Key West and they stayed at what is now known as the Harry S. Truman Little White House. President Truman spent the most time at the Little White House of any President, there have been seven total.
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