White's Guide to Florida and her famous resorts : containing a brief history of Florida; her climate, health, soil, agricultural products, fruits, phosphates, transportation lines and other useful and interesting information : also a sketch of Jacksonville and other points of interest to the tourist, invalid, immigrant or sportsman, and how to reach them. 3rd ed., 1893

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

White's Guide to Florida and her famous resorts : containing a brief history of Florida; her climate, health, soil, agricultural products, fruits, phosphates, transportation lines and other useful and interesting information : also a sketch of Jacksonville and other points of interest to the tourist, invalid, immigrant or sportsman, and how to reach them. 3rd ed., 1893

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.6055

Description

102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm White's Guide to Florida and her famous resorts : containing a brief history of Florida; her climate, health, soil, agricultural products, fruits, phosphates, transportation lines and other useful and interesting information : also a sketch of Jacksonville and other points of interest to the tourist, invalid, immigrant or sportsman, and how to reach them by J. W. White. Third edition, 1893. Pages 101-102 bound before p. 3. Jacksonville information: pages 45-59. Selected contents: Florida -- History including population for each decade from 1830-1880 -- Climate -- Health -- Soil -- Agricultural products including tobacco -- Florida fruits including varieties of oranges, peaches, plums, Japan persimmon, pineapple, pears, figs, grapes, guavas, bananas, mango, pawpaw, anona, sapodilla, sugar apple, tamarind -- Phosphates -- Famous resorts in Jacksonville -- City of St. Augustine -- Fernandina -- Key West -- Pensacola -- Tallahassee -- Green Cove Springs -- Gainesville -- Ocala -- Quincy -- Orlando -- Lake City -- Leesburg -- Palatka -- Cedar Key -- Tampa -- Sanford -- DeLand -- Titusville -- Lake Worth -- Distances on St. Johns River from Jacksonville -- By rail -- Difference in time -- Latitude and longitude. Selected contents Jacksonville: Called city of hotels -- Free Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Labor, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, 4 daily papers, 2 clubs are the Yacht and Jacksonville, East Jacksonville, Springfield laid off in lots, List of churches, List of society organizations, List of public buildings and places of amusement, List of hotels, Business blocks and halls, New blocks, Interesting items such as number of churches, forty total, white 18, colored 22. Selected ads (small portion): Raymond D. Knight & Co.. , H. W. Caldwell & Co., Hotel Placide, Tremont Hotel, Jacksonville Club stables and horse exchange, Trumpeller the leading merchant tailor, Equitable Investment Co., Journal of Commerce, New York steam laundry, Maynard ticket broker, Bank saloon, Hawley's shorthand school, R. Fleming tailor , Julius Slager & Co., Little Brothers, O. L. Keene millinery, Steamer Eliza Hancox, Wanklyn & Co., W. P. Sumner grocer, A. Campbell meats, game ,poultry, vegetables, Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad company including a photograph, St. James Hotel,

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Florida -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History -- 19th century., Florida -- History.

Publication Details

Author

White, J. W. (Joseph W.).

Edition

Third edition

Publisher

Garrett Printing Co.

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Jacksonville, Fla.

Call No.

Rare Book F 311 .W6 1893