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Like most places, Key West has changed through the decades. Tourism became the economy’s bedrock. Chain stores moved downtown. More people, more cars. ... See old photos of streets, buildings ...
Featured in City Confidential episode Key West: Pirates in Paradise Season 3, Episode 4 (2000) A film about him, Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story was released in 1986, starring Cliff Robertson and Loretta Swit .
The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum is located at 200 Greene Street, Key West, Florida.The museum contains an extensive collection of artifacts from 17th century shipwrecks, such as the Henrietta Marie, Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita. [1]
Collins-Black secured most of the pieces of treasure at auction and through antique dealers over the past five years. They include a Casascius bitcoin (the first physical bitcoin ever made), a ...
After 16 years combing through the sea off Key West, Fisher’s salvage crew, nicknamed the “Golden Crew,” uncovered the Atocha site about 35 miles southwest of Key West on July 20, 1985.
The registered wealth included 166,574 silver “pieces of eight” treasure coins, more than 550 ingots of silver weighing approximately 10,000 pounds, and over 9,000 ounces of gold in the form of bars, discs, and bits. Additionally, there was a large amount of contraband treasure smuggled on board to avoid a 20 percent tax to the Spanish king.
The Key West Shipwreck Museum (formerly Shipwreck Historeum) is located in Key West, Florida, United States. It combines actors, films and actual artifacts to tell the story of 400 years of shipwreck salvage in the Florida Keys. The museum itself is a re-creation of a 19th-century warehouse built by wrecker tycoon Asa Tift.
Cheapside pictured in 1909, with the church of St Mary-le-Bow in the background. The Cheapside Hoard is a hoard of jewellery from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, discovered in 1912 by workmen using a pickaxe to excavate in a cellar at 30–32 Cheapside in London, on the corner with Friday Street.