SECRET JACKSONVILLE : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure.

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

SECRET JACKSONVILLE : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure.

Entry/Object ID

Library.2017

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Library records not in public view

Description

200 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm SECRET JACKSONVILLE : a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure by Bill Delaney. SECRET JACKSONVILLE : all in upper case letters per cover and title page. Summary: You could call Jacksonville the secret city of Florida because even many natives have a tough time pinning down its defining features and best spots. But for anyone willing to dig beneath the surface, there’s no shortage of incredible sights, hidden histories and unusual relics just waiting to be discovered. Want to see the world’s largest Native American woodcarving, chart the roots of Southern rock, or eat curly fries at the barbecue joint that claims to have invented them? Secret Jacksonville: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure is dedicated to telling the stories behind forgotten, mysterious and just plain interesting spots across Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Fernandina Beach and the surrounding communities. Here you’ll find out where you can see a long forgotten Florida waterfall with connections to Jacksonville’s founder, and learn why there’s a tombstone in the middle of a neighborhood sidewalk. You’ll hear the stories behind local delicacies like Jacksonville-style garlic crabs, datil peppers, Mayport shrimp and camel rider sandwiches. And of course, you’ll learn what exactly is up with that orange roadside dinosaur everyone’s always talking about. Jacksonville writer Bill Delaney has a deep passion for his hometown and a keen interest in underrepresented stories. From folklore to history and everything in between ...Amazon Contents: Great Fire of 1901 -- DUUUVAL -- St. John's Cathedral -- Chamblin's -- Duval Bass -- Train buried beneath a Skyscraper -- Downtown's underground tunnels -- Fort Caroline engraving at the Jacksonville Main Library -- Ossachite: A lost Timucua city? -- LaVilla -- Ritz Theatre and Museum -- Lift Every Voice and Sing Park -- Clara White Mission -- Whetstonian -- Sally Dark rides -- Laura Adorkor Kofi mausoleum -- CAT HOUSE: The Jaguar mural -- Zora Neale Hurston in the First Coast -- Big Jim -- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum -- Garlic crabs -- Evergreen Cemetery -- Thompson Williams's grave -- Edward Waters University, Florida's oldest HBCU -- J. P. Small Park -- Holley's Bar B Q -- Moncrief Springs and White Harvest Farms -- Florida native bird rookery at the Jacksonville Zoo -- Devil's School: Haunted Anne Lytle Elementary -- Sun-Ray Cinema -- Jiffy feet don't fail me now -- Willowbranch Park: Jacksonville's LGBTQ holy ground -- Camel riders: Deliciousness in a pita -- Gray House : Birthplace of the Allman Brothers Band -- St. Johns River monster -- Treaty Oak -- St. Johns River Taxi and River Dolphin -- Marco Lake -- EL Faro Memorial -- Kingsley Plantation -- Neff House and the mysterious Betz sphere -- Mission San Juan del Puerto -- Blackrock Beach (Boneyard Beach ) -- American Beach -- Old Town: Original location of Fernandina -- Birthplace of modern shrimping -- Palace Saloon : Florida's oldest bar -- Wiccademous, the Witch of Fernandina -- Egans Creek Greenway -- White Oak Conservation -- Cumberland Island -- Okefenokee Swamp -- Bulls Bay Preserve and waterfall -- Camp Milton -- Jacksonville Southern rock graves -- Birthplace of the Blue Angels -- Yukon: Jacksonville's ghost town -- Wreck of the Maple Leaf -- Yerkes Laboratory of primate biology -- Green Cove Spring Park -- Bardin Booger -- Exchange Club Island Mud Island) -- Norman Studios and silent film's winter capital -- Kona Skatepark -- Cosmo and the Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor -- Hontoon owl, world's largest pre-Columbian woodcarving -- Timucuan Preserve -- Ribault Column -- Spanish-American War battery -- Salaam Club and the Ramallah Club of Jacksonville -- Sexy Rex, King of Beach Boulevard -- Mussallem Galleries -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Mandarin school -- Brumos Collection -- Beaches Museum -- Jacksonville Beach Pier and the birth of first coast surfing -- Alpha Paynter, ghost of TacoLu -- Mayport village -- Beluthahatchee: Stetson Kennedy's home -- St. John's ghost light road -- Datil peppers -- Castle Ottis -- Secrets of the Fountain of Youth -- Hurricane lady -- Fort Mose -- Marineland -- Sources -- Index. Author: Bill Delaney is a writer, editor, and higher-education professional from Jacksonville, Florida, whose work focuses on the culture and history of the First Coast. He is co-owner and editor of the Modern Cities.com, TheJaxsonmag.com, and Edible Northeast Florida magazine. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English from the University of North Florida.

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Library

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Nomenclature 4.0

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Book

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Other Documents

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Documentary Objects

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Category 08: Communication Objects

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Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901., St. John's Cathedral (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Ritz Theatre and Museum (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing Park (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Clara White Mission., Whetstone family., Sally Dark Rides (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Kofi, Laura Adorkor., Hurston, Zora Neale., Big Jim Whistle (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum., Williams, Thompson, 1857-1908., Edward Waters College., Holley's Bar B Q , Moncrief Springs (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Sun-Ray Cinema (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Treaty Oak (Jacksonville, Fla.)., El Faro (Cargo ship)., American Beach (Fla.) -- History., Kennedy, Stetson., Fort Mose Site (Fla.)., Paynter, Alpha, 1887-1962., LGBTQ.

Publication Details

Author

Delaney, Bill

Publisher

Reedy Press

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

St. Louis, MO

Call No.

F 319 .J1 D45 2021

ISBN

9781681063348