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The Volstead, the Knight Building, and Ghosts of the Fire of 1901

Posted on May 26, 2023 | Leave a comment

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The W.A. Knight Building stands on the old homesite of Edward Cleaveland, “the man who burned down the town,” whose business negligence started the Great Fire of 1901. When the building was new, it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol. It now houses the Volstead, a bar named in irony for the Prohibition Act.

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Leaving the Carl Swisher Mansion

Posted on January 7, 2023 | Leave a comment

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Lori Boyer has called the old Carl Swisher mansion in San Marco home for 35 years. She mourned one husband here, married another. John Swisher, manufacturer of King Edward Cigars, built this house for his son right beside his own in 1930. Boyer says she’s a period in the house’s history and now it’s time for another family.

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Hove Hall and the Sacrifice the House Demands

Posted on November 11, 2022 | 3 comments

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It’s not just that John Hove, Florida businessman and former Swedish judge, has spent a decade renovating this 1920s riverfront mansion that his renaming the house makes a necessary romantic sense. He never knew what strange Christmas pasts the house harbored and couldn’t have predicted the scale of personal tragedy. Still, this renovation will mark the achievement of a lifetime!

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Tagged Anders Hove, Anna Taliaferro Lane, Anwar Sadat, Atlantic National Bank, Bill Lyerly, Buffers USA, Charter Company, Craig Becker, Crittall Casement Window Company, Edward Lane, Epping Forest, Hanna Hove, Hanna Hove Becker, Herb Peyton, Hove Hall, Jack Moment, James Taliaferro, jaxpsychogeo, Jean Lyerly, John Hove, Lane-Towers House, Mad Atlas of Virginia King, Marsh and Saxelbye, Pokey Lyerly, Raymond Mason, Rogers Towers, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Tim Gilmore, Virginia King, Yvonne Hove

New Story: Epping Forest

Posted on April 15, 2021 | 1 comment

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Epping Forest is the grandest historic estate in Jacksonville. Well known, the summits of world leaders here. Well known, its original owner’s personal manipulation of banking in the Great Depression. Why, however, did Alfred Dent believe his grandmother, Jessie Ball duPont, and her brother, Edward Ball, had murdered his grandfather, Alfred duPont? Also, what’s up with the pelicans and squirrels and vampire faces?

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Against All Odds: The Survival of Edward Waters College

Posted on March 20, 2021 | Leave a comment

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It’s the oldest educational institution in Jacksonville. I wander Edward Waters College with Professor David Jamison. He points to buildings long ago destroyed by fire and we discuss R.L. Brown, Jacksonville’s first black architect. Against unbelievably great odds, what’s now the oldest historically black college in Florida survived.

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New Story: Poisoning Durkeeville: Fairfax Street Wood Treaters / Howard Feed Mills / American Motors Export Company

Posted on December 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

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It’s a story of an automobile empire that never was, of a “Mediterranean-style” town vetoed by the Great Depression, of a wood treatment facility that poisoned a black neighborhood for 30 years. The multiple lives of the old American Motors Export Building still haunt these 12 acres in the middle of Durkeeville.

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Tagged AMEC, American Motors Export Company, Chromated Copper Arsenate, Continental Can Company, Durkeeville, Ennis Davis, Environmental Protection Agency, Ernest Lundy, Fairfax Street Wood Treaters, Florida Departments of Environmental Protection, George Howard, Granada Jacksonville, Harold Saxelbye, Health and of Financial Services, Henry Innes, Howard Feed Mills, Innes coup, Innes producer, Innes sedan, Innes Touring Car, Jack Spottswood, Jacksonville Brewing Company, Jax Beer, jax psycho geo, Lawrence Webb Howard, Marsh and Saxelbye, Moncrief Creek, Mulford Marsh, R.V. Daniels Elementary School, Reclaiming Jacksonville, Representative Tracie Davis, superfund site, Susie E. Tolbert Elementary, Tim Gilmore, Tracie Davis, Trout River, Veri-Best, Wood Treaters LLC

This Week’s Story: Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

Posted on August 10, 2019 | Leave a comment

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Helen’s mother could take a sip and tell which city had bottled the Coke. When the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant opened in New Springfield, Charles Guth–“ruthless rascal,” murderer, future president of Pepsi–opened a bottling plant across the street. In later years, William played hide-and-seek amidst abandoned equipment while his parents cleaned at night.

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Tagged Albert Kahn, Andrew Jackson High School, atherine Hobbs Seneath, Bludwine, Charles Guth, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, CV Sales Fire Protection Equipment, Gayle Cooper, George Murphy, Guth Chocolate, Guth Cola, Harold Saxelbye, Helen Sauls, Jack Spottswood, Jacksonville history, James Bullock, jax psycho geo, John Wesley Young, King Edward Cigars, Levin L. Dirickson Jr., Loft Candy Company, Marsh and Saxelbye, Mavis Candies, Mavis Cola, Maxwell House, Mulford Marsh, New Springfield, Pure Oil Filling Station Riverside, Purple Petunia, Richard Tedlow, Swisher and Son, Tim Gilmore, Tip-Top Bread, Ward's Bakery, Wesley Plott, William Compton

Tag Archives: Marsh and Saxelbye

The Volstead, the Knight Building, and Ghosts of the Fire of 1901

Leaving the Carl Swisher Mansion

Hove Hall and the Sacrifice the House Demands

New Story: Epping Forest

Against All Odds: The Survival of Edward Waters College

New Story: Poisoning Durkeeville: Fairfax Street Wood Treaters / Howard Feed Mills / American Motors Export Company

This Week’s Story: Coca-Cola Bottling Co.

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