With the coming of the railroad in the early 1900s, the pineapple blight and the hurricanes of 1906, 1909 and 1910, all the residents in what is now known as the Key Largo area slowly moved away. The Florida Key Largo Land Boom of the 1920s began and area land was sold to would-be developers, but the hurricane of 1926 and 1928 doomed developer’s plans in Key Largo