History

Before the Jessie Ball duPont Fund took over the building at 40 East Adams Street and turned it into a...

Nearly 60 years ago, a new City Hall building was being built downtown along Bay Street. As part of the...

Following the Great Fire of 1901, downtown Jacksonville had been largely reduced to an empty wasteland. The rebuilding effort would...

Though it encompassed just four years of America’s lengthy history, the American Civil War continues to be viewed as among...

Jacksonville has for many years been referred to as a “Navy town”, owing to the presence of NAS Jax and...

For decades prior to the 1960s, the idea of consolidating the governments of Duval County and Jacksonville had been kicked...

When the city of Jacksonville and Duval County consolidated into one government in the late 1960s, there were a few...

The land we know today as Jacksonville has been home to several settlements over the course of history, dating back...

For years, the land now known as Ponte Vedra Beach was almost entirely undeveloped. Even as beach-side communities like Pablo...

If you’ve ever driven past FSCJ’s Deerwood campus at the corner of Old Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard and thought,...