Consolidation as told by The Jacksonville Historical Society

After World War II, the government of the City of Jacksonville began to increase spending to fund new building projects in the boom that occurred after the war. Mayor W. Haydon Burns oversaw the construction of a new city hall, civic auditorium, public library and Read More …

Jacksonville: The Inside Story – Consolidation

  This episode of Florida Community College (now Florida State College) at Jacksonville’s Jacksonville: The Inside Story offers a look at the complicated and frequently overlapping systems of city and county government that existed before Jacksonville and Duval County consolidated in 1968, and the process Read More …