The 50th Airlift Squadron is one of four operational flying Air Mobility Command squadrons currently stationed at Little Rock AFB in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Alexander H. Darnes (c.1840 - February 11, 1894) was an African American who was born into slavery in St. Augustine, Florida and became the first black doctor in Jacksonville, Florida.
Bari Eve Wood was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1946, grew up in and around Chicago, and graduated from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in English.
On June 12, 2010, Blumer broke the Guinness World Record for making the largest bowl of salsa at the 26th Tomato Fest in Jacksonville, Texas.
Foiled Again! is an unpublished biography of Kahles by his daughter, Jessie Phelps Kahles Straut (September 22, 1911-November 23, 1998), of Jacksonville, Florida.
Chelsea Rathburn (born Jacksonville, Florida) is an American poet.
Born in Maine and raised in Jacksonville, Oregon, Dave Schwep began his photography career at the age of 19 on the ski slopes of Big Sky Montana.
Dian Parkinson (born Dianna Lynn Batts on November 30, 1944 in Jacksonville, North Carolina) is a former American model and hostess on The Price Is Right.
First Coast News can refer to three television stations in Jacksonville, Florida.
He was arrested and sentenced to three years at the federal prison in Jacksonville, Texas for the incident After his release he sat down for an interview and described the death of his mother in 1975 at the age of 17 as the leading cause to his drug and alcohol abuse and that his 3 years in jail helped him and he would now live a better life.
After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.
Gibbs was first married to the former Bobbie Regina Hibbard (October 22, 1921–June 30, 1969), a native of Jacksonville in Cherokee County, Texas, the daughter of L. Jackson Hibbard and the former Lora Lexie Palmore.
Lamm currently tours with Tres Chicas, Tkach plays and sings for numerous bands, among them Bad Folk, and Barton is married and living in Jacksonville, Florida.
Since 1995 she has been the Assistant Conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra in Jacksonville, Oregon and has guest conducted several orchestras and choruses throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.
Henry “Hank” James Thomas was born on August 29, 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida.
French Huguenots founded Fort Caroline in modern-day Jacksonville in 1564, but this fort was conquered by forces from the new Spanish colony of St. Augustine the following year.
J.H.W. Hawkins (? - ca. 1920) was a New York architect who moved to Jacksonville, Florida after the city's Great Fire of 1901.
Dan Hampton, Daniel Oliver Hampton also known as "Danimal" (born September 19, 1957) is a retired Hall of Fame American football defensive tackle who played twelve seasons for the Chicago Bears from 1979 to 1990 in the National Football League.
The Grammy-winning album Stones in the Road by singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter features the song "John Doe #24" that describes a series of events that occurred in Jacksonville relating to the person on whose life the song is based.
The Jupiter and Lake Worth Railway opened in 1889 as a short connection between the JT&KW's Indian River Steamboat Company at Jupiter and the north end of Lake Worth, where steamers continued south.
Many shipping and trucking firms can serve area customers, or pass through town to several important points directly from Jacksonville, including, Beaumont, Houston, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Shreveport, and Memphis.
However, the Tea Men moved to Jacksonville, Florida in the fall of 1980 and were known as the Jacksonville Tea Men during the indoor season.
The massacre took place on October 5, 1838, near Larissa (north of Jacksonville) in the northwestern part of Cherokee County.
Phillips finally made his Scotland debut in a 5–1 friendly loss to the United States on 26 May 2012 at EverBank Field, Jacksonville, Florida.
In 1976, Millie Perkins moved to Jacksonville, Oregon with her two daughters by Robert Thom: Lillie and Hedy; in 1977, People magazine reported that Perkins "conducts a drama-therapy workshop every Tuesday night in her living room and often speaks to high school drama groups in the area".
Randy Bettis (born Raymond Randall Bettis, on March 10, 1959 in Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American DJ and remixer/producer of dance-music.
He resigned to accept a position with a large bank in Jacksonville, Florida.
Reg Saner (born 1931, Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American poet.
Santa Isabel de Utinahica (ca. 1610-ca. 1640) was a 17th-century Spanish mission believed by the Fernbank Museum of Natural History to be located in modern-day Telfair County, Georgia, near Jacksonville.
Gowin attended Jacksonville High School in Jacksonville, Texas and won All-District honors, All-East Texas honors, and All-State honors as a kicker.
A Spanish mission, Santa Isabel de Utinahica, was established in the chief town of the Utinahica on the Altamaha River, near the present site of Jacksonville, Georgia, in the first half of the 17th century.
William Layton Nelson (born March 3, 1945) is a singer, songwriter, poet and musician currently (2009) living in Jacksonville, Florida.
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On 26 January 2008, the Rabbitohs played the Leeds Rhinos at the Hodges Stadium at University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, the first time first-grade professional rugby league teams from Australia and England played each other in the United States.
He later had a brief stint with the Austin Wranglers of the Arena Football League (AFL) and then tried his hand at rugby league, playing for the Jacksonville Axemen in Jacksonville, Florida and then the Burleigh Bears in Australia.
He lived for many years in the picturesque historic town of Melrose, Florida, until declining health dictated a move to the larger city of Jacksonville not long before his death.
They currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida, where Luke is employed as strength and conditioning coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
One of these roads was the north and south road from the Willamette Valley and the other was the Road leading from Jacksonville, which was then the center of the settlement, northeast to Table Rock, Sams Valley and other localities.
The conference was formed with nine charter members (Augustana College, Carthage College, Elmhurst College, Illinois College, Illinois Wesleyan University, Lake Forest College, Millikin University, North Central College and Wheaton College) on April 26, 1946, in Jacksonville, Ill., and opened competition in the 1946-47 academic year as the College Conference of Illinois.
Curtis Marsh, Sr. (born 1970), American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Saskatchewan Roughriders, father of the latter
Garrard and Leftwich would eventually be teammates with the Jacksonville Jaguars and compete for the team's starting quarterback position.
Donna was raised on the southside of Jacksonville and graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1979.
He then served as Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Air Station New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina, until his retirement on September 30, 1972.
Stanton College Preparatory School, modern successor to Jacksonville's Edwin M. Stanton School
Hurley attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida, where he was teammates with fellow first round draft pick Billy Butler who was selected by the Kansas City Royals.
Florida Coastal School of Law, A law school located in Jacksonville, Florida, United States
The names of Flyboys were Jimmy Dye from Mount Ephraim, New Jersey, Floyd Hall from Sedalia, Missouri, Marve Mershon from Los Angeles, California, Warren Earl Vaughn from Childress, Texas, Dick Woellhof from Clay Center, Kansas Grady York from Jacksonville, Florida, Glenn Frazier from Athol, Kansas, and the Unidentified Airman, who was revealed to Bradley as Warren Hindenlang of Foxboro, Massachusetts after the publication of the hardcover edition.
In the 1870s and 1880s, Stowe and her family wintered in Mandarin, Florida, now a neighborhood of modern consolidated Jacksonville, on the St. Johns River.
Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas
The first inhabitants of the Jacksonville Beaches area were Native Americans.
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, a law enforcement entity in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, an American Symphony Orchestra in Jacksonville, Florida.
August 30, 2001: Ashley Martin kicks two PAT's in Jacksonville States's 72-10 win over Cumberland University to become the first female to play and score in an NCAA football game.
Larissa lies west of US Hiway 69, off Farm Road 855 and approximately half-way between Jacksonvile and Bullard, Texas.
Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.
There were six Lacy grandchildren, residing as of 1998 in five states: J. Russell Barnes, M.D. (born 1952), of Vicksburg, Mississippi, David Lacy Barnes, M.D. (born November 11, 1954), of Monroe; Terry Ainsworth Evans of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Martha Ainsworth Healey of Edmond, Oklahoma, Stephen C. Carrow of Tulsa, and T. Scott Carrow of Jacksonville, Florida.
Following her husband's death, Reid worked as a schoolteacher in Jacksonville and Fernandina.
Morrison worked his way up through local television stations KRTV in Great Falls, MT, WILX-TV in Lansing, MI, and WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, FL.
The Montford Point Marine Association maintains a National Museum at Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, Jacksonville, North Carolina, and archives.
An African-American had never served as mayor in Jacksonville, until Alvin Brown's election on May 19, 2011.
The Gullah describes a group of Black African Americans along the southeast coast of the United States from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.
It is the center of Jacksonville's Urban Core, which includes the surrounding neighborhoods of LaVilla, Springfield, East Jacksonville, and Brooklyn, plus a section on the south side of the St. Johns River known as Southbank.
Mac Brunson, 1978, Senior Pastor Jacksonville First Baptist Church
Some notable buildings in Parkway's portfolio include: Bank of America Center (Orlando), Frost Bank Tower, Hearst Tower (Charlotte), Liberty Place, Morgan Keegan Tower, NASCAR Plaza, One American Center, One Congress Plaza, Phoenix Tower, San Felipe Plaza, Schlumberger, U.S. Airways Building, Wells Fargo Center (Jacksonville) and 3344 Peachtree.
Former teacher Mae Boren Axton was instrumental in launching Elvis Presley's singing career by interviewing him on the radio in Jacksonville on July 28, 1955.
PBA Flight 1039 was an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante that was operated by Provincetown-Boston Airline on a scheduled passenger flight from Jacksonville International Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, to Tampa International Airport in Tampa, Florida.
The following year the Post/CBS joint venture bought the CBS-affiliated television station in Washington, and changed the call letters to WTOP-TV, and in 1953 the company bought WMBR radio and WMBR-TV in Jacksonville, Florida.
Dames Point Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida
There are local ranger district offices located in Ashland, Butte Falls, Grants Pass, Jacksonville, and Prospect.
In 1983, the Allen Collins Band, featuring Allen Collins, Barry Harwood, Leon Wilkeson, Billy Powell, and Derek Hess from RCB (also featuring Jacksonville natives Randall Hall and Jimmy Doughtry) was formed, but also soon fell apart.
Shannon Ogden is a weekday anchor, alongside Jeannie Blaylock and Donna Deegan, on First Coast News at WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida.
WAPE-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Jacksonville, Florida, United States