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Fort King George State Historic Site – Darien, Georgia
Alex and Heather Bailey of OutsideTheDen.com take tour Fort King George State Historic Site.
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Sunshine Skyway Bridge Disaster: May 9, 1980
The worst bridge disaster in Florida history occured when an errant ship struck a major support of the southbound lane during a storm. The main span toppled into Tampa Bay. 35 people lost their lives.
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Video: Inside Riverside's Foremost Dairies, Inc.
Milk Production: "Triple Goodness". A 1948 video featuring an inside tour of milk and ice cream production in Riverside's famed Foremost Dairies processing plant.
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A Different Era: Downtown Jacksonville
Metro Jacksonville shares sights and scenes of downtown Jacksonville taken during the early 20th century.
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Jacksonville’s Pacific War - Part 1
Metro Jacksonville's Robert Mann explains how Jacksonville and Northeast Florida helped win a war in the Pacific: a salute to our veterans and our home front population and industry.
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The Scourge of Socialist Charity in City Planning 1909
Adding a dash of cold water onto the high flying (and oftentimes fanciful and alarmist) rhetoric of the City Planning Conference of 1909 was none other than the US Speaker of the House of Representatives. Speaker Joseph Cannon, a forbiddingly august looking fellow that seems to have stepped out of an...
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The Scope Of American City Planning In 1909
The First National Conference on City Planning in Washington, D.C. took place in the United States in 1909 and it would set into motion a transformational national experiment in City Planning. Artists, Do Gooders, Progressives, Architects and many of the crusading leaders of the Great Awakening generation...
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The Argument to Create Suburbs in 1909
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch was one of the most passionate attendees of the historic National Conference of City Planning in 1909. Like many, she was a Social Progressive, concerned with the health and morality of the public. Simkovitch's speech was primarily concerned with the evils of density---perceived...
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Dare Tabloid: Vol 2, Issue 2: The Bold New City of God
Dare Tabloid was the publication of one of MetroJacksonville's founders, Stephen Dare back in the late 80s, early 1990s. It featured urban issues, critical art review and launched the current tradition of covering nightlife in the local entertainment weeklies. We are reprinting old issues of Dare Tabloid...
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Under the Boardwalk
EU Jacksonville shares the story of Frenchy Le Grand. The man who owned the Jacksonville Beach roller coaster. Article written by Liza Mitchell.
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