Mandarin

Name/Title

Mandarin

Entry/Object ID

Library.2241

Description

125 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Mandarin by Susan Ford and the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society. Library copy autographed by author. Contents: Always the river -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- The Maple Leaf -- istoric Houses -- Untold stories of Black Mandarin -- Community life -- Mandarin artists -- Businesses -- Churches and schools -- Beauty of Mandarin -- About the Mandarin Museum & Historical Society. Selected names: Matilda, Ma Tilda -- St. Anthony comprised 3 plantations (Beauclerc, Suttonia, Julianton) -- Civil War Black veterans included names of Forrester, Cody, Robinson, and Wanton -- Romeo Murray, pilot of the Maple Leaf, was born into slavery around 1820 -- Leo Mossa Anderson had large garden, plowed gardens throughout -- First Bapist Church today named Hopewll led by Rev. Gary Williams -- Mount Zion American Methodist Episcopal Church merged with Julington Creek's Mount Pleasant AME to become Philip R. Cousins AME Church -- Richard . Cook II came from Mass. to Jax to teach history at Edward Waters University, married Florida Holmes, assigned to Mandarin Graded School as Asst. Principal -- Bayard School Public School 126 was established in 1899 under direction of Eartha White -- Willy L. Cody, member of the Key Club, Who's who in 1974 -- Baseball was important, Black teams played Black teams due to segreation -- Lena Anderson (1895-1974) -- Hiram's BBQ -- Lofton's Cemetery -- Walter Anderson -- Earl M. Johnson, attorney, who hosted Martin Luther King in 1964, 1st Blck on Consolidated City Council -- Henry E. Davis -- James Butler -- Valdez Butler Demings -- Walter Anderson City Park -- Mandarin Community Club -- Mandarin Orange Pickers baseball team -- Mandarin Garden Club -- Mandarin Players - Italian American Club -- Form Fire Dept. in 1951 -- Mandarin Art Festival -- Southside Saddle Club -- Memphis Wood and Charles Moses Brown -- Memphis Wood -- Lee Adams -- Bruno Alberts -- Hans Barth -- Mary Graff -- Mary Foreman -- Lucinda Halsema -- Ed Gamble -- Ann Manry Kenyon -- Brenda Mauney Council -- C. Ford Riley -- John Kenning -- Gary Garrett -- Jonese lennon -- Otis Garber -- Honey Hill -- Mandarin Cemetery.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Mandarin (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- History., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Homes and haunts -- Florida., Maple Leaf (Ship).

Publication Details

Author

Ford, Susan

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Charleston, South Carolina

Call No.

F 319 .J11 M36 F46 2023

ISBN

9781467108195