Helen Cooper Floyd Collection of Mayport History

Archive

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Helen Cooper Floyd Collection of Mayport History

Entry/Object ID

2015.100

Scope and Content

Personal papers of Helen Cooper Floyd (1922-1998); Collection includes books, newspaper articles, photographs, and other memorabilia that she had filed and posted in a scrapbook over her lifetime. Most of the material is about Mayport history and the people who lived there. Helen Cooper Floyd was born in Mayport, Florida in 1922. She graduated from Florida State College for Women in 1945, and was a schoolteacher in Mayport, St Simons Island, Georgia, and Mississippi. She was a Mayport historian, and wrote "In the Shadow of the Lighthouse, a Folk History of Mayport, Florida", "Mayport Remembered, Along the Waterfront", and "Mayport Remembered, People and Places". She was an award winning columnist for the Ocean Beach Reporter in Jacksonville Beach, and is recognized for her contributions in Florida folklore, research on the Minorcans and Northeast Florida's commercial fishing industry. She died at her home in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in 1998, and was survived by her husband and seven children. The following books came with the collection and were added to the Library Collection: Barbour, George M. - Florida For Tourists, Invalids, and Settlers - 1964; Fairbanks, George R. - The History and Antiquities of the City of St. Augustine, Florida - 1975; Florida Historical Quarterly, April 1992; Graham, Thomas - The Awakening of St. Augustine, 1978; Jordan, Elaine Blohm - Pine Island, the Forgotten Island, 1982; Journal of the Jacksonville Historical Society - Northeast Florida History - Volume Two 1994; Pastor, Ethel X - Wartime Entertaining - 1942

Collection

Helen Cooper Floyd Collection of Mayport History

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Archive

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Archive Items Details

Date(s) of Creation

1945 - 1998

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Broward Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 1

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Public Access

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Buford, Dorothy

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 2

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Cemeteries

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 3

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Churches, Catholic

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 4

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Churches, Miscellaneous

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 5

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Public Access

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Churches, Presbyterian

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 6

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Civil War Letters

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 7

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Coleman's Store

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 8

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Cooper Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 9

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Corse, Carita Doggett

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 10

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Crooked Feather

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 11

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Cross Creek

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 12

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Public Access

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Danmark (Ship)

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 13

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Floyd Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 14

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Public Access

Title

Helen Cooper Floyd

Description

Booklets - "In the Shadow the Lighthouse", "Mayport Remembered, Along the Waterfront", "Mayport Remembered, People and Places"

Container

Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 15

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Public Access

Title

Helen Cooper Floyd

Description

"Corner on History" columns

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 16

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Public Access

Title

Helen Cooper Floyd

Description

Miscellaneous

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 17

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Public Access

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Hawley, Mary Tillotson

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 18

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Haworth Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 19

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Public Access

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Hessie (Steamer)

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 20

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Horned Toads

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 21

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Hotels

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 22

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Houses

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 23

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Houston Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 24

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Title

Jacksonville and Beaches History

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 25

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Jazz Festival

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 26

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Jetties

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 27

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Johnson Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 27

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William Frederick Keeler

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 28

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King Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 30

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Lighthouses

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 1 Folder 31

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Public Access

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Maps, Mayport

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 1

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Maps, Miscellaneous

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 2

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Title

Mayport, Community Development

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 3

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Public Access

Title

Mayport, History

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 5

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Public Access

Title

Mayport, Miscellaneous

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 6

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Public Access

Title

Mayport Ferry

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 4

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Public Access

Title

Naval Station Mayport

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 7

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Osceola

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 8

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People, Miscellaneous

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 9

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Public Access

Title

Phillips, Claude

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 10

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Pickett Grocery

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 11

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Title

Pilots

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 12

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Railroads

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 13

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Restaurants

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 14

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Reunions

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 15

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Ribault Monument

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 16

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St Johns River

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 17

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Schools

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 18

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Shrimping and Fishing

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 19

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Singleton Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 20

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Title

Elizabeth Stark

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 21

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Public Access

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Thomas, Louis (French Louie)

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 22

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Tillotson Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 23

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Public Access

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Torrible Family

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 24

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Turtles, Gopher

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Location JHS Archives Container Box 2 Folder 25

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Title

Scrapbook

Description

19.5" X 25" Brown scrapbook with subject tabs: Mayport General; R R; Fishermen; Talbot; Wartime; Mail; E Stark; Ferries; King Family; Chichemo (Trawler); Haworth; Torrible; Tillotson; Donald Ray (Boat) Containing primarily newspaper clippings

Container

Location JHS Archives Container Box 2

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Public Access