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Gravely Hill Plantation and Graveyard

Posted on December 7, 2018 | Leave a comment

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Why is the world’s oldest man buried here? Or wasn’t he 133 years old? Where are Jim Domingo, Cyrus and Francisco? And who burnt down the old house on the hill? The kids playing hide-and-seek? Or that ageless wanderer who’d lost count of his wars, trying to keep warm on a winter night?

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Tagged Alligator Road, Brooklyn, Cedar Creek, Confederacy, Confederate Veterans' Reunion, Dell's Bluff, Dirt Road to the South, Gravelly Hill, Gravely Hill, Jacksonville history, James Edward Monroe, James McInarnay, jaxpysychogeo, Jim Dimingo, John Bellamy, John Braun, Lenox Avenue, Miles Price, Old Gainesville Road, Riverside Memorial Park, slavery, Steven Eubanks, Stonewall Jackson, Tim Gilmore, United States Colored Troops, William M. Jones, Wills Branch Creek

Black Masonic Temple

Posted on December 1, 2018 | Leave a comment

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What these walls have seen! Architects Mark and Sheftall began their own firm in 1912 and with a commission for the grandest building in black Jacksonville. The Black Masonic Temple formed the brick foundation of the black community.

Princess Laura Adorkor Kofi preached her “back to Africa” message here in the 1920s. Future Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Leander Shaw had his offices here in the 1960s. And the tunnels beneath Broad Street would offer protection if Florida’s massacres of black communities at Ocoee, Perry, and Rosewood should spread to Jacksonville.

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Tagged African Lodge no. 459, African Universal Church and Commercial League, Anderson Bank, Black Masonic Temple, C.H. Henry, Central America, Charles Wright, Clara White Mission, D.W. Perkins, Daniel Webster Perkins, Earl Mark, Florida Star, Frank Lloyd Wright, Free and Accepted Masons, Genaro Urso, Gerry Urso, Henry John Klutho, Incorporated Prince Hall Affiliated, Jacksonville, jaxpsychogeo, Jim Crow, John H. Dickinson, July Perry, Jurisdiction, Ku Klux Klan, Laura Adorkor Kofi, LaVilla, Lawrence Moman, Leander L. Shaw, Leander Shaw, Leeroy Sheftall, Louis Sullivan, lynching, Marcus Garvey, Mark and Sheftall, Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity, NAACP, Negro Blue Book, Negro World, Ocoee Massacre, Padrica Mendez, Patricia Moman Bell, Pedro Mendez, Perry Massacre, Prairie Style, Prince Hall, Prince Hall freemasonry, Princess Laura Adorkor Kofi, Robert Broward, Rosewood Massacre, Stanton School, State of Florida and Belize, The Crisis, Tillman Valentine, Tim Gilmore, United States Colored Troops, USCT, Wainwright Building

Stories of Pine Forest: Incinerators, Klan Crosses, Family Love and Mulberry Trees

Posted on April 6, 2018 | 1 comment

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The Ku Klux Klan burnt a cross in front of her family’s little woodframe house.

The Clydo Road incinerator burnt as much as 120 tons of trash every day. Donna recalls the black smoke pouring through the trees.

Another Lebanese family, the Johns, lived in the three-story rambling house at 5724.

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Tagged Albert John, Chop Suey candy, Clydo Road, Craig Swamp, Donna Delegal, Douglas Anderson, Florida Junior College, Florida Panther, Hazel Tisdale, Jennifer Grey, Jerusalem Cemetery, Ku Klux Klan, Marlen Frazee, Mount Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church, mulberries, Osiris, Philips, Philips Cemetery, Pine Forest, Red Bank Plantation, Sadie Nasif Aborjali, San Diego Campus, Southside Incinerator, St Augustine Road, United States Colored Troops, Vinson Lane

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