Name/Title
Fraternal Order of Police 1948 Year BookEntry/Object ID
2015.1.5705Description
155 pages : illustrations, photos ; 30 cm
Fraternal Order of Police 1948 Year Book by Fraternal Order of Police ((Jacksonville, Fla.).
1948 yearbook.
Title from cover.
Verso of front cover: Essay by Chief of Police, Sherman B. Cannon supporting need for future Fraternal Order of Police Building as well as thanking Mayor, City Commission, and City Council for their assistance.
Photographs of : Mayor Frank C. Whitehead -- Commissioners Ulsch, Simmons, Pierce, Imeson, and Sutton -- Chief of Police Cannon -- Assistant Chief Clark and Reynolds -- Officers & Directors FPO 1948 including President Carlquist -- Alphabetical listing of police department and staff (Name, photo).
Includes multi-page article by Lt. J. H. Allen titled History of Jacksonville. This is based on Mr. T. Frederick Davis's book, History of Jacksonville, Florida and vicinity..
Sections: First white man -- Indians of that day -- French arrive -- Florida becomes a French possession -- Second French expedition -- First buildings (Fort Caroline) -- First permanent settlement (Ribault's 2nd voyage) -- Spaniards come -- Menendez plans attack on Fort Caroline -- First battle between white men in North America -- Fate of Ribault -- Spanish occupation (Menendez renamed fort to Fort San Mateo, river Rio de San Mateo) -- Retribution of Dominic de Gourgues -- Beginning of roads and trails -- Florida becomes English territory (Marquis of Hastings and Marquis of Waterford received grants) -- Spaniards return (John H. McIntosh) -- Patriot revolution (General Matthews, Colonel Newnan, patriot banner) -- First Fort San Nicholas (Francis S. Hudnall acquired land where fort located) -- St. John's River (Illaka, Welaka, name changes) -- Spanish land grants (Land grant act and land grant commissioners) -- Robert Pritchard (1st settler in Jax), John Joseph Lain, Mrs. Purnal Taylor -- Ortega settled -- South Jacksonville (Spanish grant to William Jones, regranted to William Hendrix and relatives, Harrison Reed) -- Brooklyn & Riverside (known as Dell's Bluff, John H. McIntosh acquired, Lancaster, Forbes) -- La Villa (John Jones, Isaac Hendricks, John W. Richard, Rev. James McDonald, Reed, Spencer, Baker) -- Willowbrook (Robert Hutcheson) -- Downtown Jax (Mrs. Taylor, John Masters, John Bellamy, Hart, Mills) -- Jacksonville founded -- First store opened by Buckles & Dawson -- First hotel (Mrs. Waterman's boarding house called "The Inn") -- Jax 1822 -- Town named (Suggested by John Warren of Jacksonville, street names explained) -- Founder of Jax, I. D. Hart -- Duval County created 1822 --First court house -- Growth of Jax -- First sawmill -- Block house built in 1836 -- Attacks by the Indians -- Jax continues growth -- 1st bulkhead -- Jax in the early 1850's -- Jax 1850-1855 -- Great fire of 1854 -- 1855-1860 -- War between the states (Commodore DuPont, Federal occupation, General Wright, Lieutenant Strange, a Confederate, killed & 1st blood spilled in area) -- Second Federal occupation -- Evacuation & burning of Jax -- Reorganization & reconstruction -- 1876 to 1924 -- Tourist travel -- Orange industry -- 1883 -- Other developments -- Spanish-American War (Three Friends tugboat, Camp Cuba Libre) -- St. Johns River fortifications -- City destroyed by fire,1901 -- Jax and the World War One.
Photographs: Seashole Funeral Parlor, p.143 -- Corner of Adams/Julia Street, p. 131 -- Destruction of Jax 1901 from atop water tank, p.125 -- old post office, p.114.Collection
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Police -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Police -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Photographs., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- Police., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- Photographs., Seashole Funeral Parlor (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- Photographs., Old Post Office (Jacksonville, Fla) -- Photographs., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901 -- Photographs., Davis, T. Frederick (Thomas Frederick), 1877-1946.Publication Details
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Fraternal Order of Police, Jacksonville, Fla.Publisher
Drummond PressPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Jacksonville, Fla.?Call No.
HV 8148 .J32 F7 1948