Jacksonville, Florida
The DeSantis administration moved Florida into Phase One on May 18, 2020. Phase One allowed Florida restaurants to operate at 50% capacity, but bars remained closed. The DeSantis administration moved Florida into Phase Two on June 5, 2020. Bars, and other vendors licensed to sell Read More …
Inscription. Here at the foot of Market St. stood a bay tree which served as the starting point for the original survey of Jacksonville in June 1822. Market was the first street laid off and named. A total of 20 squares were platted, bounded by Read More …
Please join in the ground breaking of Centennial Garden at Willow Branch Park July 25 at 8am, celebrating the 100th year anniversary of the dedication of this historic park. This gift is made possible through the combined efforts of the AIDS Memorial Project and Plant Read More …
There is a new butterfly garden in Landon Park. Laura Byres designed the new space after Hurricane Irma ruined the rose garden that was previously there. Byres, along with the San Marco Garden Club, filled it with milkweed, pentas, black-eyed Susans and more flowers to Read More …
July 16, 1969 Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Ed Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft on this date. Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of the Apollo program, and its target was Read More …
Garden Club Jax joins the people raising support for the Centennial Garden at Historic Willow Branch Park. Richard Ceriello, president of the AIDS Memorial Project of Northeast Florida, has been working to improve the park for several years. His organization has planted trees in the Read More …
Lewis Thornton Powell was hanged for his role in the conspiracy to kill President Abraham Lincoln on this date in 1865. Powell was not a native Floridian, but he had lived in Live Oak since 1859 with his family, joining the 2nd Florida Infantry in Read More …
July 4, 1776 – Thirteen British colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America signed a Declaration of Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on this date. Florida was acquired by the British from the Spanish in 1763, and was subsequently divided into Read More …
“Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” will be performed live or played before “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to each NFL game during Week 1 and the league is considering putting names of victims of police brutality on helmet decals or jersey patches, a person familiar with Read More …
Fellsmere resident Zena M. Dreier became the first woman in Florida and the southern United States to cast her vote in a municipal non-school election on this date in 1915. Mrs. Dreier cast her vote five years before the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to Read More …
James Weldon Johnson, African American author, composer, lawyer, teacher, and civil rights activist, was born in Jacksonville on this date in 1871. In his early years in Jacksonville, Johnson was educated first by his mother, but later graduated from the Edwin M. Stanton School, where Read More …
The Collins Bridge, the first bridge connecting Miami Beach with Miami, opened on this date in 1913. It was built by early south Florida land developer, John S. Collins, and partially financed by Carl G. Fisher. At the time of completion it was the longest Read More …
Mayor Lenny Curry held a press conference on the steps of City Hall this morning, hours after city workers removed a Confederate monument from Hemming Park. “Yesterday there was Confederate monument in this park. It’s gone. And the others in this city will be removed Read More …
In 1842 Florida was a U.S. territory. It would be another three years before it became a state and people were already saying #florida or #floridaman. Not really, but only because they didn’t have the internet. Florida passed a law that demanded the death penalty Read More …
By 1845 Almost half the state of Florida’s population were enslaved African-Americans working on large cotton and sugar plantations in the north-central part of the state. Slave labor accounted for 85% of the state’s cotton production. Black slaves used to be rounded up to work Read More …
Despite what you may have seen or heard from multiple media outlets, the Saturday afternoon protest in downtown Jacksonville did not “turn violent”. Then why the inaccurate headlines and commentary from some media outlets? They are cut from the same cloth as the media that Read More …
TRAYVON MARTIN (Walking home with iced tea and Skittles. Shot by George Zinneman, who was found not guilty.) KEITH SCOTT (Sitting in car, reading. Shot by police officer, who was not charged.) ATATIANA JEFFERSON (Looking out her window, shot by police officer, who is still Read More …
Henry Morrison Flagler, founder of the Standard Oil Company and the Florida East Coast Railroad and Hotel Company, died at his home in West Palm Beach at the age of eighty-three on this date in 1913. Flagler facilitated and greatly accelerated the development of Florida Read More …