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New Story: Three Oaks Plaza, FBI Headquarters, Offshore Power Systems

Posted on July 11, 2020 | Leave a comment

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Three Oaks Plaza is no plaza and these three squat buildings are no oaks. This is the site of Offshore Power Systems, supposed builders of floating nuclear power plants in the ocean, a company to which Jax offered, with national embarrassment, to sell its soul in the 1970s. This is the site of the former Jax FBI hq for 35 years, now the home of squatters, the setting of strange fires in abandoned structures.

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Goat Island, Christopher’s Pier, Rattlesnake Hunting, a Man Shot in the Face, and Tim Gilmore’s Upcoming Book Launch at the Jacksonville Historical Society

Posted on August 11, 2018 | Leave a comment

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On August 23 at 6:30 pm at the Jacksonville Historical Society, Tim Gilmore will launch, read from, and sign his newest book, Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida vs. Rollians Christopher. (Your invitation is at the bottom of this post.)

Rollians Christopher, 1955, photograph unattributed, courtesy Florida Times-Union

Here’s an early version of a story that makes its way into the book, a story about Christopher’s Pier, the tavern that protruded from the fishing village over the river for decades, about a Yellow Fever quarantine hospital, about a fisherman whose legs were car tires, about shrimp boats and hunting rattlesnakes, about a man shot in the face.

Goat Island, 1955, prior to its development into Blount Island, photograph unattributed, courtesy Florida Times-Union

You are invited: https://www.facebook.com/events/314940972382209/

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