Tag Archives: Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888

Unparalleled Successes from the Now Abandoned State Board of Health Building

Posted on June 24, 2023 | 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:

When Florida created its Board of Health in 1889, life expectancy here was 44 years. The successes achieved in making life in naturally inhumane Florida livable stagger the imagination. They’re almost beyond communication. And much of that work happened here — in the now abandoned State Board of Health Building in Jacksonville.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged 1931 County Health Unit Law, Claude Kirk, Claudius Maximus, Florida Division of Health, Florida Health Notes, Florida polio quarantine, Florida Public Health Office, Florida State Board of Health Building, Governor Claude Kirk, jaxpsychogeo, Joseph Yates Porter, Julia Street Building and Public Health, JY Porter, Raspberry Park, Russell Jackson, State Board of Health Building Jacksonville, Tim Gilmore, Webster Merritt, Wilson Sowder, Yellow Fever, Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888, Yellow Jack

Hunter’s Mill and the Cursed Waterfront

Posted on February 17, 2023 | 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 East Jacksonville waterfront lies vacant where Shad Kahn talks of building a Four Seasons Hotel. Long ago, before workers built 82 ships here in World War II, Hunter’s Mill and the waterfront sawmills were violent places, full of arson, murder and suicide.

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged Alexander and Hardie, Commodore Point, Dexter Hunter, Elder Eugene Lindsley, Eppinger and Russell, Four Seasons Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs and Melrose Railroad, H.D. Holland, Henry Clark, Hogans Creek, Hunter's Mill, Hunter's Saw Mill, John O’Neill (or O’Neil), Richard Montgomery, Seminole Club Jacksonville, Shad Kahn, Sheriff H.D. Holland, Springfield Advent Christian Church, St. Johns River Shipbuilding Company, T. Frederick Davis, T.V. Cashen, The Pond Jacksonville, Western Railway Company of Florida, Yellow Fever, Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888

The Double Hauntings of Gateway Mall on Yellow Fever Burials at Sand Hills Hospital

Posted on March 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

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

“We found so many bones. I had two bags full of them,” John says. Then Lorene wore her hula outfit for Montgomery Ward’s “Hawaiian Days” sale and Pat and Donna both played Easter Bunny. Where Smallpox and Yellow Fever victims died at Sand Hills Hospital, Gateway Shopping Center and Mall suffered cycles of suburban flight and decline. “We found a skull out there,” Linda says, “and took it to school.”

Leave a comment

Posted in Uncategorized

Tagged A Century of Medicine in Jacksonville and Duval County, Bono's Barbecue, Charlie Suggs, Donald Sluder, Donna Renee Burns, Easter Bunny, Esther Troeger Oetjen, Fashion Earrings and Gifts, Fire Next Time, Florida history, G.C. Murphy, Gatewall Shopping Center, Gateway Mall, Gateway Town Center, George Blum, Golfair Manor, Hogans Creek, J.C. Penney, Jacksonville history, James Baldwin, Jane Delano, jaxpsychogeo, Jim Sieg, John Hal Price, Leave It to Beaver, Linda Curtis, Linda Emerson Sabin, Lorene Peterson Mizell, Louise Hall Hersey, Mark Hodges, Marlboro Circle, Merritt Webster, Montgomery Ward, Norwood Avenue, Norwood Elementary, Orange Julius, Pat Bullard, Sam Morris Spevak, Sand Hills Hospital, Sand Hills Yellow Fever Hospital, Sissy Morgan Guinn, Slippery Dip, Smallpox, St. Luke's Hospital, Symrise, Tim Gilmore, Tom McCurry, Wagonmaster, Wellington Cummer, Yellow Fever, Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888, Yellow Fever Hill