Tag Archives: Isaiah Hart

The Saga of the Heart of Jacksonville Motel

Posted on October 24, 2021 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the search bar or the direction buttons at the top of the page:

It’s the saga of the Heart of Jacksonville Motel: pop bands and robberies, boxing promoters and unsolved murders. And those t-shirts the cops printed there after one of their own was a suspect. Fire after fire after fire. The motel’s gone, but people still come and stay.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Alby Grissom, Bob Arnold, boxing arena Jacksonville, Florida National Bank, Heart of Jacksonville, Heart of Jacksonville Hotel, Heart of Jacksonville Motel, Heart of Jacksonville Motor Hotel, Heart of Jacksonville Park View Inn, Henry Lewis, Henry Lewis Florida National Bank, Isaiah Hart, Isaiah Hart Jacksonville, Jacksonville Gasworks, Jacksonville police, James David Raulerson, jaxpsychogeo, Jimmie Murdock, Long's Cop Shop, Mae Drayton, Marguerite Lewis, Monkees Jacksonville, Park View Inn, Park View Inn Jacksonville, Peaches Drayton, Phil Kearney, Raymond Long, Ric Klein Monkees, Tim Gilmore, wrestling arena Jacksonville

Willie Browne on the Lost Communities of Fulton and Lone Star

Posted on September 26, 2021 | 1 comment

January 1967, Old Willie Browne, who will soon donate his hundreds of acres of forest and bluff to conservation, discusses lost communities with Father Frank Dearing. You’ll find the two stories below:

1) Here’s the lost town of Fulton, Willie’s friend Captain Hole, stories of moonshiners and buried treasure, the digging up of Fulton Cemetery.

2) And here’s the lost black community of Lone Star, one of many in the Arlington area. Here, at least the cemetery remains. Its oldest occupant was born before Jacksonville.

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Andrew Atkinson Grant, B.G. Jarvis, Calypso Island, Captain Hole, Chaseville, Chaseville Arlington Jacksonville, Cleve Powell, Cosmo, Cosmo Arlington Jacksonville, Frank Dearing, Fulton, Fulton Arlington Jacksonville, Fulton Boat Ramp, Fulton Cemetery, Fulton Town, H. Frederick Hole, Henry Ferrar, Homoloa, Isaiah Hart, jax psycho geo, Jean Ribault, John C. Christian, Lone Star, Lone Star Arlington Jacksonville, Lone Star Cemetery, Lone Star Road, Lord “Harry” Peter Chamberlain, Lucy Ames Edwards, Mary Hole, Mill Creek at Kendall Town, Mt. Zion Methodist Church, R. Fulton Cutting, Reverend Frank Dearing, Sanchez Grant, Saxon Browne, Shipyard Creek, Shipyard Road, St. Johns Bluff, Tim Gilmore, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Willie Browne, Woodsong Loop West

The Autobiography of the San Juline

Posted on September 3, 2021 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the search bar or the direction buttons at the top of the page:

The story of the San Juline Apartments includes artists, historians and Congressmen; social introductions, deaths and secret loves. A great old building has a dense life story. The speaking tubes are still in the walls and on certain nights, perhaps the spectral tour buses from a century ago still make stops from the grand downtown hotels.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged C. Adrian Pillars, Carita Corse, Carita Doggett Corse, Cay Mansion Riverside Jacksonville, Cecil Vignutti’s Studio for Hair, Charlie Bennett, Cheek Castle, Colonel Raymond Cay, Congressman Charles Bennett, Daisy Hart Smith, Debbie Akins, Emily Gilmore, Emmet Ferguson, Fenimore Apartments, Floral Anthology, Francis Fleming, H.F. McAden, Hartmore Apartments, Isaiah Hart, jax psycho geo, Jerry Ferguson, Jessie Fritot, John Montgomery, Julian Prewitte, Leon Cheek House, Lynn and Mary Jarrett, Lynn Jarrett, Mary Jarrett, Mellen Greeley, Memorial Park Jacksonville, Mole Hole, Nancy Purcell, Park Lane Building, Riverside Avondale history, Riverside Hospital, Riverside Theater, Roy Benjamin, Rutledge Holmes, San Juline, San Juline Apartments, San Juline Apartments Riverside Jacksonville, San Marco Theater, speaking tubes, Taylor Hardwick, Tim Gilmore, Tom Gallacher, Wayne Wood

The Crossroads: One House Still Stands

Posted on September 15, 2019 | Leave a comment

Click below for this week’s story, or navigate the city through the direction buttons at the top of the page:

It was the most prestigious crossroads in the city. Two senators lived here. Anna Fletcher said her house was haunted, that a grandfather clock had thrown itself upon a young woman. She wrote about it in her 1929 book Death Unveiled. Now only the Porter House remains. Click below for the full story.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Anna Fletcher, Anna Louise Fletcher, Architects’ and Builders’ Magazine, Duncan Fletcher House, Duncan U. Fletcher, First Christian Church. H.J. Klutho, Henry John Klutho, Isaiah Hart, J.H.W. Hawkins, Jacksonville City Hall, Jacksonville history, James Taliaferro House, jaxpsychogeo, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, Ossian Hart, Robert Broward, Spiritualism, Stephen Mallory II, Thomas Porter House, Tim Gilmore, W.S. Ware House, William James Bryant, William S. Ware

Suddath / Van Valkenburgh House

Posted on April 27, 2019 | Leave a comment

Click below for the story.

The citrus grove featured the first Satsumas in North America. Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh had brought them from Japan. He’d raised 17 volunteer regiments for the Union in the Civil War, included the one he commanded at Antietam. The Suddaths called this rambling house home for 70 years and dug old bottles from the bluff. Jessica climbed the roof as a child.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Alfred Schoonmaker, Anna Van Valkenburgh, Antietam, Barbara Suddath, Carl Suddath, Carrie Suddath, CSS Stonewall, Cynthia Parks, Daisy Schoonmaker, Empire Point, Frankenstein, glacis, Hazzard's Bluff, Isaiah Hart, Jacksonville, James Saunt, Janie Coffey, jax psycho geo, Jean Rhys, Jessica Miller, John Keats, Jud Miller, Julia Suddath, kitchen house, Kōtetsu, Lee Adams, Lord Byron, Louis Édouard Fournier, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Oak Haven, Ossian Hart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Hazzard, Richard Suddath, Robert Bruce Van Valkenburgh, Sarah Clarke Stuart, Satsumas, Steve Suddath, Suddath Companies, Suddath House, Suddath Moving and Storage, Tim Gilmore, Unshu Mikan, Van Valkenburgh House, veranda, Wide Sargasso Sea