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Author : Thomas Frederick Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity written by Thomas Frederick Davis and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Frederick Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (76 download)
Download or read book History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity, 1513 to 1924 written by Thomas Frederick Davis and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Frederick Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935259063
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)
Download or read book History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity 1513 to 1924 written by T. Frederick Davis and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Frederick Davis
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849660400
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book History of Jacksonville, Florida and Vicinity, 1513 to 1924 written by T. Frederick Davis and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2021 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two times there was a wholesale destruction of Jacksonville's official records – in the War Between the States and by the fire of May 3, 1901. The author's effort in this work was to collect all of the available authentic matter for permanent preservation in book form. The record closes as of December 31, 1924. The record is derived from many sources – long forgotten books and pamphlets; old letters and diaries that have been stored away as family memorials of the past; newspapers beginning with the St. Augustine Herald in 1822 (on file at the Congressional Library at Washington) fragmentary for the early years, but extremely valuable for historical research; almost a complete file of local newspapers from 1875 to date; from the unpublished statements of old residents of conditions and outstanding events within the period of their clear recollection; and from a multitude of other sources of reliability. The search through the highways and the byways for local history was in the spare moments of the author stretching over a period of a score of years, a pastime "hobby" with no idea of making money out of it. No attempt has been made to discuss the merits of any incident, but only to present the facts, just as they were and just as they are, from the records and sources indicated.
Author : Abel A. Bartley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030472
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Keeping the Faith written by Abel A. Bartley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-04-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system. Bartley tells the compelling story of how African Americans first gained, then lost, then regained political representation in Jacksonville. Between the end of the Civil War and the consolidation of city and county government in 1967, the political struggle was buffeted by the ongoing effort to build an economically viable African American economy in the virulently racist South. It was the institutional complexity of the African American community that ultimately made the protest efforts viable. Black leaders relied on the institutions created during Reconstruction to buttress their social agitation. Black churches, schools, fraternal organizations, and businesses underpinned the civil rights activities of community leaders by supplying the people and the evidence of abuse that inflamed the passions of ordinary people. The sixty-year struggle to break down the door blocking political power serves as an intriguing backdrop to community development efforts. Jacksonville's African American community never accepted their second-class status. From the beginning of their subjugation, they fought to remedy the situation by continuing to vote and run for offices while they developed their economic and social institutions.
Author : Canter Brown (Jr.)
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817309152
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 written by Canter Brown (Jr.) and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking study revealing the magnitude and impact of African American leadership in Florida during the post-Civil War era. This work also includes an extensive biographical directory of more than 600 officeholders, an appendix of officials by political subdivision, and more.
Author : Canter Brown, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168602
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor written by Canter Brown, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exceptional biography, Canter Brown, Jr., removes Ossian Bingley Hart (1821–1874)—a Unionist, the principal founder of the Republican Party in Florida, and a Reconstruction-era governor of the state—from the shadows of history. Through an examination of Hart’s life and career, Brown offers new insight into the political problems of the day—the role of Unionism in Deep South politics in particular—and enriches our understanding of the complexities of Reconstruction. Brown traces Hart’s life from his privileged childhood in the newly founded port town of Jacksonville through his service as a volunteer soldier in the Second Seminole War, his education in South Carolina, and the dawn of his legal and political career on Florida’s Atlantic frontier to his election as governor in 1872 and his premature death sixteen months later. Brown’s multifaceted biography offers a rare glimpse at the persistence of Loyalism in the post-Civil War South and clearly illustrates the pivotal role played by both Loyalists and African Americans in southern politics of that era and how these two groups merged to resist carpetbag rule.
Author : Larry Eugene Rivers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094034
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Rebels and Runaways written by Larry Eugene Rivers and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Florida's unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever to occur in American history. Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom.
Author : Donald J. Mabry
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231788
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book World's Finest Beach written by Donald J. Mabry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct of one of the largest naval bases in the United States and how a former mine called Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. Noted historian Don Mabry traces the fascinating history of what he still considers home from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first in this warm account of the "World's Finest Beach."?
Author : John W. Cowart
Publisher : Bluefish Books
ISBN 13 : 1411683005
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Heroes All written by John W. Cowart and published by Bluefish Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cowart's Men of Valor traces the history of Jacksonville, Florida, my hometown, from the viewpoint of how many times the place has burned down. While the book touches on politics within the Fire Department, it focuses on the bravery and heroic deeds of firefighters who save lives and property daily.
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760097
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Florida; a Guide to the Southern-Most State, written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1939 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the state of Florida ... sponsored by state of Florida Department of Public Instruction.
Author : Andrew Bachmann
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738543949
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Jacksonville Revisited written by Andrew Bachmann and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacksonville's Consolidation of 1967 marked the end of individual towns in Duval County, but it established Jacksonville, all 840 square miles of it, as the largest city in the continental United States. Jacksonville Revisited is a visual and written documentation of how the city has grown and developed since the introduction of postcard communication. The changes in commerce and landscape are illustrated and preserved through postcards.
Author : James B. Crooks
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1947372432
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Jacksonville After the Fire, 1901–1919 written by James B. Crooks and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
Author : Jacksonville Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738506838
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Jacksonville in Vintage Postcards written by Jacksonville Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Fire of May 3, 1901 marked at once the end and the beginning of the City of Jacksonville. A thriving port and a center for business and tourism until that point, Jacksonville was devastated by the conflagration, and yet, even before the ashes had cooled, a building boom began. Prominent and aspiring architects flocked to the area and the opportunities it afforded them to create a "twentieth century city." Jacksonville's ensuing era of reconstruction and growth, which would continue until the United States entered World War I in 1917, helped to define the city's present personality and appearance.
Author : William H. Nulty
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817307486
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Confederate Florida written by William H. Nulty and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1994-01-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Union defeat in Florida's most violent action (and one that seriously depleted Confederate forces in Atlanta and Charleston). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Corinna Brown Aldrich
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570035364
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Echoes from a Distant Frontier written by Corinna Brown Aldrich and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes from a Distant Frontier is an edited, annotated selection of the correspondence of Corinna and Ellen Brown, two single women in their twenties, who left a comfortable New England home in 1835 for the Florida frontier. Within a month of their arrival, the frontier erupted in Indian war. The Browns witnessed the terror and carnage firsthand, and their letters paint a vivid picture of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842).
Author : Dorothy K. Fletcher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625859430
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Jacksonville on Wheels: A Car Culture Retrospective written by Dorothy K. Fletcher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacksonville has long been a mecca for car enthusiasts and collectors, due in part to the city's unique automotive history. Bystanders gazed in wonder as John Einig drove Florida's very first steam-powered horseless carriage through the streets in 1889. Fred Gilbert opened the first automobile dealership in 1903, just before the city's first automobile parade, and people were soon clamoring to buy cars of their own. Claude Nolan, whose local dealership has been in business for well over a century, gained fame for racing his Cadillac against an airplane at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds. NASCAR held races at the Jacksonville Speedway in the '50s and '60s. Author Dorothy K. Fletcher explores the rich history and memories of car culture in the River City.
