Timeline of Jacksonville, Florida

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

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Prior to 20th century[]

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  • 1564 - French Fort Caroline established by René Goulaine de Laudonnière.[1]
  • 1565 - Spanish forces take Fort Caroline.
  • 1822
  • 1832
  • 1838 - Bethel Baptist Church established.[5]
  • 1845 - Florida becomes part of the United States.
  • 1846 - October 12: Gale.[6]
  • 1857 - City Park created.
  • 1858 - Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central Railroad begins operating.[7]
  • 1862 - Town occupied by Union forces.
  • 1869 - St. James Hotel built.[8]
  • 1871 - Furchgott, Benedict & Co. dry goods store in business.[9]
  • 1872 - Cookman Institute established.[3]
  • 1873 - Florida Circulating Library active.[10]
  • 1875 - Windsor Hotel built.[11]
  • 1876
    • Duval High School established.[12]
    • Union Congregational Church built.[12][13]
  • 1877 - Board of Health established.[12]
  • 1878 - Library and Literary Association formed.
  • 1881 - Florida Daily Times begins publication.[14]
  • 1882
  • 1884 - Board of Trade organized.[16]
  • 1885 - Park Opera House in business.[17]
  • 1886 - Boylan Industrial Home and school established.[18]
  • 1887
  • 1888 - Subtropical Exposition held.
  • 1890 - Population: 17,201.[3]
  • 1892 - Edward Waters College active.[20]
  • 1893 - Streetcars began operating.
  • 1897 - Woman's Club founded.[21]
  • 1900 -

20th century[]

1900s-1950s[]

1960s-1990s[]

21st century[]

  • 2001 - Ander Crenshaw becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 4th congressional district.[41]
  • 2003 - May 13: Jacksonville mayoral election, 2003 held; John Peyton wins.
  • 2010 - Population: 821,784.[42]
  • 2011 - March 22: Jacksonville mayoral election, 2011 held; Alvin Brown wins. He was the city's first elected African-American mayor.[23]
  • 2013 - Corrine Brown becomes U.S. representative for Florida's 3rd congressional district again.[43]
  • 2015 - Lenny Curry becomes mayor.

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ In Florida "'municipal home rule' power does not extend to fiscal home rule, however, because the state reserves all taxing authority to itself."[31]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Jacksonville Timeline". Jacksonville Public Library. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012.
  2. ^ James Wood Davidson (1889), Florida of To-day: A Guide for Tourists and Settlers, D. Appleton and company, OCLC 1535118, OL 23527797M
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ Florida Legislative Committee on Intergovernmental Relations (2001), Overview of Municipal Incorporations in Florida (PDF), LCIR Report, Tallahassee, archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-28
  5. ^ Monroe N. Work, ed. (1922). "The Church Among Negroes: First Churches Organized (timeline)". Negro Year Book. Alabama: Negro Year Book Publishing Company, Tuskegee Institute. hdl:2027/wu.89073092546 – via HathiTrust.
  6. ^ Davis 1911.
  7. ^ Fenlon 1953.
  8. ^ Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  9. ^ Dry Goods Economist, New York: Textile Publishing Co., January 22, 1916, OCLC 8911005
  10. ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
  11. ^ Varnum 1885.
  12. ^ a b c Gold 1929.
  13. ^ History, Jacksonville: Arlington Congregational Church, retrieved September 20, 2016
  14. ^ a b "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
  15. ^ Webb 1887, pp. 13–21: "Chronological"
  16. ^ Board of Trade 1906.
  17. ^ a b Fletcher 2015.
  18. ^ Woman's home missions, Cincinnati: Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, August 1920
  19. ^ Shumsky 1998.
  20. ^ Nancy C. Curtis (1996), Black Heritage Sites, Chicago: American Library Association, ISBN 0838906435, OL 1274269M, 0838906435
  21. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Crooks 1984.
  22. ^ McCarthy 1992.
  23. ^ a b c d "Timeline of African-Americans in North Florida". Jacksonville Public Library. Retrieved September 20, 2016.
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
  25. ^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
  26. ^ a b c Bartley 2000.
  27. ^ a b c Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Florida", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
  28. ^ a b "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
  29. ^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Florida", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
  30. ^ Historic Highway Bridges of Florida (PDF), Florida Department of Transportation, 2012
  31. ^ a b League of Women Voters Jacksonville; et al., Introduction to Duval County Government, retrieved April 30, 2017
  32. ^ Susan Tiefenbrun (2012), Tax Free Trade Zones of the World and in the United States, Edward Elgar, p. 294, ISBN 9781849802437
  33. ^ "Merchandise Received and Exports: Top 25, 2015", Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States, 2016
  34. ^ Bell, Jon (December 1, 2007). "Jacksonville, Florida: The Skyway". www.jtbell.net. Jon Bell. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  35. ^ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1993. hdl:2027/uc1.l0072691827 – via HathiTrust.
  36. ^ "Office of the Mayor". City of Jacksonville. Archived from the original on February 2, 2003.
  37. ^ "Welcome to Jacksonville's Virtual City Hall!". Archived from the original on December 1998 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  38. ^ "Jacksonville hopes city's new website moves services online", Jacksonville.com, Florida Times-Union, December 28, 2010
  39. ^ Prues 2003.
  40. ^ U.S. Census Bureau, "Mini-Historical Statistics: Population of the Largest 75 Cities: 1900 to 2000" (PDF), Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2003
  41. ^ "Florida". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2003. hdl:2027/mdp.39015054040954.
  42. ^ Florida Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research; U.S. Census Bureau (2011), "City of Jacksonville", 2010 Census Detailed City Profiles
  43. ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved September 20, 2016.

Bibliography[]

Published in 19th century[]

Published in 20th century[]

  • Jacksonville and Florida Facts; prepared for the Jacksonville Board of Trade, Jacksonville: H. & W. B. Drew Company, 1906, hdl:2027/nyp.33433007498706, OCLC 1540641
  • "Jacksonville". Florida Gazetteer and Business Directory 1907-1908. R. L. Polk & Co.
  • Jacksonville City Directory. R. L. Polk & Co. 1908.
  • "Jacksonville (Florida)" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 112.
  • Thomas Frederick Davis (1911), History of Early Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville: The H. & W. B. Drew Company, OCLC 1534543, OL 6537778M
  • Jacksonville: A city with a sky line and a water front and the spirit that does things, Jacksonville: Arnold Printing Co., 1913, OCLC 1813903, OL 242620M
  • "Jacksonville". Automobile Blue Book. Vol. 6. USA. 1920. Map
  • Thomas Frederick Davis (1925). History of Jacksonville, Florida and vicinity 1513 to 1924. St. Augustine, Fla.: Florida Historical Society. OCLC 250419240.
  • Pleasant Daniel Gold (1929). History of Duval County. St. Augustine, Fla.: The Record Company – via HathiTrust. (fulltext)
  • Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Jacksonville", Florida; a Guide to the Southernmost State
  • Paul E. Fenlon (October 1953). "The Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad: The Railroad in Jacksonville". Florida Historical Quarterly. 32 (2): 71–80. JSTOR 30138953.
  • Richard A. Martin (1975). The City Makers. Jacksonville, FL. OCLC 1547826.
  • Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Jacksonville", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
  • James B. Crooks (April 1984). "Changing Face of Jacksonville, Florida: 1900-1910". Florida Historical Quarterly. 62 (4): 439–463. JSTOR 30146594.
  • James Robertson Ward (1985). Old Hickory's Town: An Illustrated History of Jacksonville. Miller Press. OCLC 8919363.
  • James B. Crooks (1991). Jacksonville after the Fire, 1901–1919: A New South City. University of North Florida Press. ISBN 0813010675.
  • Kevin M. McCarthy, ed. (1992). "Jacksonville". Book Lover's Guide to Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple Press. pp. 26–49. ISBN 978-1-56164-021-8.
  • Susan E. Clarke; Gary L. Gaile (1998). "Cities at Work: Cleveland and Jacksonville". The Work of Cities. Globalization and Community. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 107–150. ISBN 978-0-8166-2892-6.
  • Neil L. Shumsky, ed. (1998). "Jacksonville, Florida". Encyclopedia of Urban America: The Cities and Suburbs. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1849723362.
  • Abel A. Bartley (2000). Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-31035-5.

Published in 21st century[]

External links[]

Images[]

  • Bay Street, Jacksonville, late 19th c.

  • 1886 advertisement for Park Opera House (est. 1885)

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