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The Story of Tree Hill

Posted on August 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

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This is the story of Tree Hill, of impounding the creeks for a mill pond 200 years ago; the famed herpetologist and the boa constrictor; the woman on horseback who knew all the land’s secrets; the strange translucent pyramid; of the annual butterfly festival, of a thousand native butterflies taking flight at once.

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Tagged Antony Macy, Arlington Park Cemetery, Arlington Thrift Store, Claris Jaques, Cleve Powell, Cleveland Johnson, F.W. Bruce, Francis Richard, Gurney Kennedy, Jacksonville Mayport and Pablo, Lone Star Road, Lone Star Stables, Louise Johnson, Lum's Restaurant, Neisner's Variety Store, Red Bay Hammock, Red Bay Ranch and Dairy, Ross Allen, Silver Springs, Spanish American War Battery, Strawberry Creek, Ted Pappas, Tevlar, Tree Hill, Tree Hill Butterfly Festival, Tree Hill Nature Center, Valerie Kennedy, Wilfred Neill, Willie Browne

When the City Dumped Sewage Sludge on the Regency Dunes

Posted on October 1, 2022 | Leave a comment

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National headlines announced fecal matter raining across the city. Sewage lines collapsed without being replaced. Treatment facilities were overwhelmed. Tankers dumped sewage sludge on the sand dunes behind Regency Square Mall where kids had jumped their dune buggies and dads shot World War II rifles. The mayor jumped into the sludge wars.

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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.

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