May 27, 2025
Five facts about Milldale. a long-forgotten industrial mill town born from Panama Park’s Cummer Lumber Co.…
May 21, 2025
THE JAXSON | From bacon to BUBBA Burgers to Peterbrooke: Jones-Chambliss meat packers
For nearly a century, Jones-Chambliss Meat Packing was a major employer and smelly beehive of activity in Jacksonville’s Mixon Town.…
May 13, 2025
THE JAXSON | The rise, fall, and rebirth of West Adams Street
Before-and-after photos of a street that was a vital artery in Jacksonville’s LaVilla for over a century.…
May 7, 2025
THE JAXSON | Streets of memory: Jacksonville’s forgotten urban commercial hubs
Once vital arteries of Jacksonville’s growth and cultural identity, here are four historic commercial corridors that have been forgotten and…
April 8, 2025
THE JAXSON | Before and after: The S-Line Urban Greenway
S-Line Urban Greenway opened in 2008 as Jacksonville’s first dedicated urban multi-use trail. Here is a before-and-after look at the…
March 25, 2025
THE JAXSON | History of the West Jacksonville Rail Yard
For much of the 20th century, the West Jacksonville Yard and its locomotive shops served as a key economic anchor…
March 18, 2025
THE JAXSON | The story of Dr. Julia Walker-Brown and Walker’s Business College
For nearly 50 years, Walker’s Commercial & Vocational College was a major Jacksonville educational institution. In honor of Women’s History…
February 9, 2025
OPINION | Battle of Olustee, now a celebration, was infamous for its cruelty to Black troops
The annual Battle of Olustee reenactment and festivities are Feb. 14 through 16.…
January 28, 2025
THE JAXSON | How Downtown’s train station was saved
This is the story of the Station Celebration, a forgotten dispatch that rallied thousands of Jaxsons together to help save…
January 22, 2025
THE JAXSON | A trip down memory lane: 1970s Jacksonville
Here’s a visual history of seven sites photographed as a part of a 1970s city of Jacksonville planning study.…
December 4, 2024
THE JAXSON | 14 historic JAXPORT photographs
Here’s a photographic journey showing JAXPORT’s facilities over the past 108 years.…
November 27, 2024
THE JAXSON | The history of Jacksonville’s San Marco neighborhood
Across the St. Johns River from Downtown Jacksonville, San Marco is a historic neighborhood known for its architecture, restaurants, boutiques…
November 12, 2024
THE JAXSON | Ray Charles in Jacksonville
Here are six sites associated with Ray Charles’ time as an up-and-coming musician in Jacksonville.…
October 30, 2024
THE JAXSON | The history of Jacksonville’s San Mateo neighborhood
Fifteen minutes north of Downtown Jacksonville, San Mateo is a post-World War II neighborhood characterized by a mature developed landscape…
October 23, 2024
THE JAXSON | Jaxlore: Annie Lytle Elementary, ‘The Devil’s School’
The former Annie Lytle Elementary School by I-95 between Riverside and Brooklyn has long had a reputation as the “most…
October 16, 2024
THE JAXSON | 3 surviving factory buildings from Jax’s Cuban cigar-making era
By 1895, Jacksonville was home to thousands of Cuban immigrants and 15 cigar manufacturing companies.…
October 8, 2024
THE JAXSON | 9 historic Durkeeville photographs
During the early 20th century, the greater Durkeeville community became a segregation-era hub of Black culture, business and social life…
October 1, 2024
THE JAXSON | The ‘malling’ of Baymeadows
A look at the rise, repositioning and survival of Deerwood Village Mall, one of the Southside’s oldest shopping malls.…
September 18, 2024
THE JAXSON | The history of Jacksonville’s Norwood neighborhood
Located along the banks of Moncrief Creek, Norwood is a Northside neighborhood that was laid out in 1912.…
September 10, 2024
THE JAXSON | Florida’s 5 largest cities in 1900
Even in 1900, when Florida was the 32nd largest state in the country, Jacksonville was by far its largest city.…
September 10, 2024
OPINION | The Mathews Bridge needs a name that reflects all of Jacksonville
The bridge’s namesake, John E. Mathews, was quoted in 1920 as saying: “This is a white man’s country and government.”…
September 9, 2024
The Beatles integrated their Jacksonville concert 60 years ago this week. An event gives a look back
On Thursday, Sept. 12, a tribute cover band and two noted historians will revisit what was the first major racially…
September 4, 2024
THE JAXSON | The fascinating history of Black Hammock Island’s Cedar Point Preserve
Jacksonville’s Black Hammock Island has a fascinating history from 6,000 years of civilization. Here are four facts about Cedar Point…
August 28, 2024
THE JAXSON | Memory lane: The Chitlin’ Circuit’s famed Two Spot Club
Moncrief’s Two Spot was said to be the finest dance palace in the country owned by an African American during…