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Mandarin: a place in FloridaEntry/Object ID
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76 pages : drawings, photographs, maps ; 28 cm.
Mandarin: a place in Florida by Nan Vaughn Ramey.
Includes references and index.
History in Mandarin, vol. 1, Mandarin: a place in Florida.
Dedication page has autograph of author.
Vol. 1 by Nan Vaughan Ramey & the Fourth Grade Students of Room 109 Greeenland Pines Elementary, Mandarin, Florida.
Students sent letters into the Mandarin community which led to the compilation and formation of this book.- preface.
Contents: Place in North Florida -- First people --Tracing Florida's history in Mandarin -- Indians at war -- People, places and things -- Florida becomes a state -- Changes in Florida -- News travels fast (Mandarin post office) -- Preservation -- Progress -- People -- Prominent people who influenced Mandarin -- Luxuries of life -- Traveling grace (Kings Road, brick streets, Buckman Bridge, Henry Holland Buckman, Sr., Buffington House, Carleton Hotel, Bayard Inn, Flynn's Hardware, Bayard store, Great Fire of 1901) -- Maple Leaf -- St. Johns steamboats (Capt. Charles Edward Garner purchased Mary Draper, 1st steam-propeller built on St. Johns, schedule for steamboats from Jacksonville to Mandarin, Daniel Danahoo) -- School days (Bayard and Mandarin school children sent to Loretto School in mid 1900s, Edwin Jones property donated, Community Club, President Emily Lisska) -- Schools in Mandarin == School stuff (various schools in area noted) -- Eternal thoughts (Village of Loretto, George Hartley, St. Joseph's, Presbyterian congregation believe first Protestant church on St. Johns after Fllorida became a territory) -- Church gives land for a school for Black children, St. Luke's hospital) -- Military in and around Mandarin (Camp Johnston) -- Memories of Mandarin (How inventions impacted Mandarin (buttons, zipper, buttonhook, corset, rubber garden hose) -- Now and then (first fax sent to an elementary school student, Mary B. Graff, Harriet Beecher Stowe) -- Orange pickers (Orange Pickers Road, Anderson's Place, Edith and Pat Shickel) -- Log cabin in the woods (Colonial Logs as weekend home, Adkins, Falks, and James England family occupied, Walter Anderson's parents owned Anderson's Place) -- Animals in Mandarin -- Histories unveiled (Artist Brenda Councill & art series of Mandarin drawings, Switzerland near Mandarin) -- Historic Mandarin field trip (map with points of interest) -- Direction (Teachers and personnel who influenced Mandarin, brief biographies, children as writers and historians brief biographies -- Bibliography (References) -- Notes -- Index.
Many photographs/drawings are included such as part of Blake's map of Florida, 1846 --Charlie E. Bennett -- George Waldoch raised bees -- Horsedrawn school bus -- Grave site of Dr. James Hall, 1st physician in Florida -- Mary B. Graff -- Colonial Logs house -- B. Mauney Councill -- Switzerland scenes.Collection
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Mandarin (Jacksonville, Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Florida -- Jacksonville., Bennett, Charles E., 1910- 2003., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896., Buckman, Henry Holland, Sr., 1858-1914., Maple Leaf (Ship)., Graff, Mary B., Lisska, Emily Retherford.Publication Details
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Ramey, Nan VaughnEdition
spiral boundPublisher
N. V. RameyPlace Published
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Mandarin, FLCall No.
F 319 .J11 M36 R36 1994