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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM209W_combat-team-camp-atlantic-beach_Atlantic-Beach-FL.html
Constructed by the U.S. Army in 1942, Combat Team Camp Atlantic Beach was the headquarters of the Harbor Defenses of Jacksonville during World War II. The camp was tasked with defending Florida's Atlantic coast from Axis invasion following the sin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X2C_second-missionary-baptist-church-of-lavilla-historical_Jacksonville-FL.html
The founders of Second Missionary Baptist Church worshipped at Bethel Baptist Church with their slaves masters in the 1830s. They built their first separate wooden sanctuary in 1848 in the African American neighborhood of LaVilla. The first sanctu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RBY_don-pedro-menendez-de-aviles_Jacksonville-FL.html
September 1565
Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles
Founder of St. Augustine
and
Adelantado of the Floridas
under Phillip II of Spain
voyaged up this river
seeking a waterway to Mexico
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R9X_san-marco_Jacksonville-FL.html
With the opening of the St. John's River Bridge in 1921, South Jacksonville became attractive to developers during the Florida land boom. In 1925, Jacksonville real estate developer Telfair Stockton began work on San Marco, an 80-acre Mediterranea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R88_old-brewster-hospital_Jacksonville-FL.html
Built in 1885 as a private residence, Old Brewster Hospital and Nursing Training School was the first medical facility to serve Jacksonville's African-American community. Located in the LaVilla neighborhood, the hospital opened in 1901 through the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R87_american-red-cross-volunteer-life-saving-corps-and-station_Jacksonville-Beach-FL.html
In 1912, following the drowning of a prominent citizen, Dr. Lyman Haskell and Clarence MacDonald established and trained Florida's first U.S. Volunteer Life Saving Corps (VLSC) at this location to protect the lives of bathers on Jacksonville Beach…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R5H_villa-alexandria_Jacksonville-FL.html
Villa Alexandria, built in the 1870s as the winter home of Alexander and Martha Mitchell of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, once stood near here. Martha Mitchell's brother, Harrison Reed, served as Florida Governor from 1868-73 and lived nearby on the south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3U_centennial-hall-edward-waters-college_Jacksonville-FL.html
Founded in 1866, Edward Waters College (EWC) is the oldest historically black college in Florida. The history of the college is closely tied to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. In 1865, the Reverend Charles H. Pearch, a presiding elde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3N_jacksonville-and-the-movie-industry_Jacksonville-FL.html
Though originally centered around the Theater District of New York City, silent film production companies soon discovered New England winters too harsh for year-round filming. In the winter of 1908 cast and crew of the production company Kalem Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R3M_norman-silent-film-studios_Jacksonville-FL.html
While Jacksonville bustled with the activity of motion picture filming during the years 1908 through 1916, by the early 1920s little of the industry remained in town. However, over on Laura Street in the Springfield section of Jacksonville, brothe…