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Jeff Davis: Confederate Generals Hung on Jax Junior High Schools

Posted on February 28, 2020 | Leave a comment

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My father and I were the only white people on the basketball court. He was 40 years older, at least, than everybody else. I’m writing this story on his 96^th. He died six months ago tomorrow.

Of what beloved Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick thought of designing new schools with the names of Confederate leaders, there’s no record. The only black faces in 1960s Jeff Davis yearbooks are those of the custodial staff. And the school principal, Wilber C. Johnson, standing beside a Confederate flag and wearing blackface.

“We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree. / We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree. / We will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree, / As we march along!”

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Tagged Alexander Stephens, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Battle of Yellow Tavern, blackface, Bob Gray, Brown v. Board of Education, Confederate Park, Cornerstone Speech, desegregation, Fort Pillow Massacre, Grand Wizard, In Memory of our Women of the Southland, J.D., J.E.B. Stuart, jax psycho geo, Jay Dee, Jeff Davis, Jefferson Davis, Jefferson Davis Junior High, Jefferson Davis Middle School, Jesse Jackson, Kirby Smith, Lost Cause Movement, Martin Luther King, Morrison's Cafeteria, Natham Bedford Forrest, Nathan Bedford Forrest High School, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gray, Sam Wolfson, segregation, Southernaire, Taylor Hardwick, Tim Gilmore, Trinity Baptist Church, Trinity Christian Academy, Wilmer C. Johnson

New Story: Geodesica

Posted on February 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Here, Charles died in Drew’s arms. Here in the rotunda, at the bottom of the ocean, though Santa Monica demolished this amusement park the year I was born, it thrives. Gilbert Spindel drew up his “Roundhouse” blueprints and promoted them in newspapers across the country in 1956. This particular Geodesica served as “exhibit house” three years later. All the rest comes forward like tides, historical patterns, ghosts. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio…”

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Tagged A Home for All, Bonnie Abbzug, Buckminster Fuller, Buzludsha, Charles Edison Chapman, Chaseville, Chaseville Cemetery, Dallas Wax Museum, Drew Hunter, Edward Abbey, FCDA, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Fibonacci Sequence, Florida history, Fort Caroline Club Estates, Geodesic Dome, Geodesica, Gilbert Spindel, Gina Martinelli, Golden Ratio, Harry Truman, Howalt Drive, Huricane Dora, jax psycho geo, Leaves of Grass, Leon Felhandler, Lonnie Wurn, midcentury modern, Monkey Wrench Gang, Neptune's Kingdom, Nevada Proving Grounds, Newel Hadley, Ocean Park Pier, Octagon House, Orson Squire Fowler, Pacific Ocean Park, Reggie Williams, Round House, Roundhouse, roundhouses, Sally Corporation, Sarah Felhandler, Southern Gothic, Spaceship Earth, Spindel Geodesica, Star Williams, Sunken City of POP, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Indians, Upshot-Knothole, Walt Whitman

New Story: Chaseville “Colored Settlement” / Fort Caroline Club Estates

Posted on February 14, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Little remains of the old “Chaseville Colored Settlement,” where the 1920 census placed America’s first black presidential candidate. Fortunately for his bones, George Edwin Taylor was buried elsewhere, because developers dug up the skeletons of the old black cemetery. Where former slaves of the region’s most prominent plantation families once came to live their lives free, real estate developers built “midcentury modern” Arlington. Poultry farms gave way to Geodesica. Click below for the full story.

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Tagged Albert Sammis, Bruce Mouser, Brutus and Cain Bolton, Cary Wintz, Charles McNeill, Chaseville, Chaseville Colored Settlement, Clarence B. Moore, Daniel Dustin Hanson, Eartha White, Edidin Drive, Elizabeth Coffee, Fort Carolina Club Estates, Fort Caroline Elementary School, Fort Caroline Road, Geodesica, George Edwin Taylor, Gilbert Spindel, Hansontown, Heidi Road, Horseshoe Landing, Jacksonville Florida, Joel McEachin, John C. Christian, Kaden Drive, Kingsley Plantation, LaVilla, Lonnie Wurn, Marian Tillinghast Taylor, Marlene Sokol, Matt Soergel, Mill Cove Complex, Mount Olive Cemetery Green Cove Springs, National Liberty Party, New Castle Creek, Oakland Jacksonville, Old Chaseville Road, Reddie Point, Rogero Road, Roundhouse, Samuel Chase, Ted Edidin, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Indians, United States Colored Troops, University Boulevard, William Marple, William Reddy

Story #509: Riverdale Inn / Brazile House / Kelly House

Posted on February 7, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Walter Brazile founded B & B Exterminating Co. in his rambling old boarding house. He nurtured the business and nurtured people, including Rufus King, Jr., brother of Virginia, author of that 8,448-page book about Jax. William Kelly, turpentine magnate, built the house 115 years ago. Albert O’Neall, though a Quaker, took a job here building bombing ranges. Now the former HQ of B & B has been restored as a bed-and-breakfast. One of my favorite writers stayed here just last week.

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Tagged Albert Ellis O'Neall, Albert O'Neall, Arden Herrin, B & B Exterminating, Barnett Mansion Springfield, Benvenuto, Bret Burmeister, Charlie Towers, Claude L'Engle, Consolidated Naval Stores, Elizabeth Brazile, Eric Waln, Florida history, Gum Bunch, Haydon Burns Library, Henry John Klutho, Irma O'Neall, J.E.T. Bowden, Jacksonville Florida, jax psycho geo, Jessica Miner-Killian, Jonathan Greeley, Larry James Bana, LaVilla, Malcolm Gladwell Jacksonville, Marjorie Ann O'Neall, Mary Mychael Waln, McCoys Creek, Mellen Greeley, Memorial Park, Napier Apartments, naval stores, Orren McJunkins, Ortega Jacksonville, Palms Boarding House, Palms Hotel, Riverdale Inn, Riverside Avondale, Riverside Hospital, Rocco Morabito, Rogers Towers, Rufus King Jr., Slappey Building, The Mad Atlas of Virginia King, The Row, Tim Gilmore, Tim Gilmore Florida, Tom Gilmore, Virginia King, Walter Brazile, Walter P. Brazile, William Kelly, William O'Neall

How “Brooklyn” Killed Brooklyn

Posted on February 7, 2020 | Leave a comment

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To bring “urban living” to Brooklyn, developers demolished Reggie Bridges’s house and the homes of his neighbors. Reggie lived here for 56 years. On the site where he attended elementary school, a new public charter school affiliated with a conservative religious college will open this fall. Lifelong Brooklynites remember promises city leaders made them years ago and Les Paul Garner says his house might end up “the last house in Brooklyn.

photo by Obscura Lux

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El Modelo, Part II

Posted on January 30, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Part Two of the three-part series on El Modelo Cigar Factory features the Dying Declaration of Marie Louise Gato, her possible romantic entanglements with young Cuban revolutionaries, and the “Jacksonville Junta,” who organized both clandestinely and not so secretly for the war in Havana.

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Tagged Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Calixto Garcia, Cuba Libre, Cuban Revolutionary Party, Dauntless, Domingo Herrera, Eddie Pitzer, Edward Pitzer, El Modelo, filibuster, Florida, freebooter, Gabriel Hidalgo Gato, Jacksonville Junta, James Weldon Johnson, jax psycho geo, José Alejandro Huau, José Carbonne, Jose Marti, Marie Louise Gato, Máximo Gómez y Báez, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Three Friends, Tim Gilmore

El Modelo: Sensational Murder Trials, Cuban Revolutionaries

Posted on January 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

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At El Modelo Cigar Factory, Cuban revolutionaries fomented insurrection. Marie Gato, daughter of El Modelo’s owner, died, bullets to her breast, subject of Jacksonville’s most sensational trial of the 19th century. El Modelo still stands. A practitioner of the law firm that calls the building home claims to have seen Marie’s ghost. Either way, this building’s story shifted history. Click below for the first story in a three-part series.

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Tagged Alexander St. Clair-Abrams, Along This Way, Barnett Bank, Colonel William Kay, Eddie Pitzer, Edward Pitzer, el lector, El Modelo, Florida history, G.H. Gato and Co, Gabriel Hidalgo Gato, Georgia Gato, Hamilton Adams, James Weldon Johnson, Jim Moseley, José Alejandro Huau, Jose Marti, lectores, Lee Adams, Marie Louise Gato, Moseley Prichard Parrish Knight & Jones, Reuben Ragland, Ricardo Ponce, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Three Friends, Tim Gilmore, Tom Adams

Remembering Jacksonville Mayor Jake Godbold, who passed away 1/23/2020

Posted on January 24, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Nobody else ever brought Jacksonville together like Jake Godbold did. After Godbold died earlier today, 1/23/2020, the T-U quoted Mike Tolbert saying, “Jacksonville just lost its best friend.” Indeed. Not quite three years ago, I wrote this story about Jake’s days at Fred Cotten’s Barbecue. It made me quite happy that he read it and liked it.

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Tagged Brentwood, Fred Cotten, Gateway Chemicals, Godbold Jake, Golfair, Independent Life Building, Jacksonville mayor, Jacksonville Mayor Jake Godbold, Jake Godbold, Kirby Smith Junior High School, Mayor Jake Godbold, Melanie Dosztan, River Club, Tim Gilmore, Tommy Hazouri

The Adams Building: from the Vice Wars to “Rehumanizing the Broken Man”

Posted on January 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The old upstairs hotel has never, in 125 years, closed its doors. Now dedicated to “deinstitutionalizing the human being and rehumanizing the broken man,” the hotel was built in the bloody years of LaVilla’s vice wars. It sheltered refugees from the Great Fire of 1901. Half a century later, it served as a brothel with “peep holes” in the walls.

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Tagged Adams Building, Adams Building Hotel, Bettelini's, Bettelini's Hotel, Blue Bird Bar and Grill, Ed Austin, Florida history, Fox Jewelry and Loan, Great Fire of 1901, Hamilton Jay, Hank Smith, Hotel Moncrief, J.E.T. Bowden, James Inn, jax psycho geo, LaVilla, Lesnick, Pete Lesnick, Pete's Jewelry and Loan, Prospect House, Richard Lesnick, Richard Martin, River City Renaissance, Robert Starrett, Sam Houston, Sam Russ, St. James Recovery Center, T.J. Underhill, The Store, Tim Gilmore

Ellenelle: An Architectural Tribute and Shrine to a Great Writer

Posted on January 15, 2020 | Leave a comment

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The house called Ellenelle is a tribute to the architecture of Henry John Klutho. It’s also a sacred space, a private literary and family temple. Ed had hoped that perhaps in his aunt’s last years, the great writer might come to live here. The bedroom to the side of the library is hers, even if she never inhabited it.

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Tagged Amasa Coleman Lee, Ed Conner, Ellenelle, Frank Lloyd Wright, Great Books Program, Henry John Klutho, Herschel Henry Conner III, Jacksonville architecture, Jacksonville history, Jason Fisher, jax psycho geo, Kentucky State University, Klutho House, Prairie style architecture, Robert Broward, Springfield Jacksonville, Springfield Usonian, Tim Gilmore

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