Craig Key is an island in the middle Florida Keys. Palm trees in Islamorada The Florida Keys are an archipelago, a string of about 1700 islands in the southeast United States. ...
U.S. Route 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile marker 72, between Lower Matecumbe Key and Fiesta Key. U.S. Route 1 (also called U.S. Highway 1, and abbreviated US 1) is a United States highway which parallels the east coast of the United States. ... The Matecumbe Keys toll booth on June 21, 1938. ... An island in the Florida Keys, Lower Matecumbe Key is in the part of the island chain referred to as the Upper Keys. ...
Formerly called Poor Craig's Key for Mr. R.W. Craig who was the owner of the island.
President Herbert Hoover moored his yacht there when he visited the keys.
A post office was established there in the late 1920s. It operated until destroyed by Hurricane Donna in 1960. Hurricane Donna in the 1960 Atlantic hurricane season was a classic Cape Verde-type hurricane that interfered with the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispanola, Cuba, The Bahamas, and every single state on the eastern seaboard of the United States. ...
Craig, sometimes referred to as CraigKey, was once known as Camp Panama according to the Miami Daily News dated January 28, 1931.
Craig's cabins and restaurant were on the ocean side and the store, post office and docks were on the bayside.
Craig, whom the island is named after, had a fishing camp there and also a yacht basin where rich people would come down during the winter months and fish.
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