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First, as upscale apartments in downtown Jacksonville, the Ambassador Hotel opened in 1924 on 310 West Church Street. By 1943, it was converted into a hotel by a personal friend of Ed Ball, the executor of the DuPont Estate, Charles Griner. Wanting nothing to do with...
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A 19th-century masonry coastal fortification, Fort Clinch was built as part of the Third System of seacoast defense by the United States. The fort is located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island in Nassau County, Florida. It lies to the...
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H. Kress & Co. better known as a “five and dime” retail department store was established by Samuel Henry Kress in 1896. Until 1981, the were hundreds of stores on “Main Street” in cities and towns across the United States, with their ornament architecture. Opening...
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With his wife, a Coca Cola heiress, Anne Bates Leach, businessman Willaford Leach in 1936 purchased Mt. Elizabeth and the surrounding property in Martin County. After he built the Mediterranean Revival home, he named it Tuckahoe, a Native American term for Welcome....
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During the Cold War and just before the United States entered into World War II, the United States government purchased a 2,600-acre tract of land from Duval County Florida. Immediately construction began on what was to become the U. S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station,...
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Founded by Professor and Mrs. Russell C. Calhoun in 1897 in Eatonville, Florida was the Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School. Eatonville was one of the first African American towns that incorporated in the United States. Both of the Calhoun’s attend Tuskegee...
