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32 unusual facts about Jacksonville


50th Airlift Squadron

The 50th Airlift Squadron is one of four operational flying Air Mobility Command squadrons currently stationed at Little Rock AFB in Jacksonville, Arkansas.

Alexander Darnes

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 Wood

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.

Bob Blumer

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.

C. W. Kahles

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 is an unpublished biography of Kahles by his daughter, Jessie Phelps Kahles Straut (September 22, 1911-November 23, 1998), of Jacksonville, Florida.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

Chelsea Rathburn (born Jacksonville, Florida) is an American poet.

Dave Schwep

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

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

First Coast News can refer to three television stations in Jacksonville, Florida.

Frankie Ruiz

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.

Georgia State Route 31

After they leave town, they continue to the northwest and have a short concurrency with SR 107, a few miles south of Jacksonville.

H. Lawrence Gibbs

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.

Hazeldine

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.

Helen Cha-Pyo

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 James Thomas

Henry “Hank” James Thomas was born on August 29, 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida.

History of Hispanic and Latino Americans

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

J.H.W. Hawkins (? - ca. 1920) was a New York architect who moved to Jacksonville, Florida after the city's Great Fire of 1901.

Jacksonville, Arkansas

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.

Jacksonville, Illinois

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.

Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway

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.

Jacksonville, Texas

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.

Kevin Keelan

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.

Killough massacre

The massacre took place on October 5, 1838, near Larissa (north of Jacksonville) in the northwestern part of Cherokee County.

Matt Phillips

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.

Millie Perkins

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

Randy Bettis (born Raymond Randall Bettis, on March 10, 1959 in Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American DJ and remixer/producer of dance-music.

Ray M. Gidney

He resigned to accept a position with a large bank in Jacksonville, Florida.

Reg Saner

Reg Saner (born 1931, Jacksonville, Illinois) is an American poet.

Santa Isabel de Utinahica

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.

Toby Gowin

Gowin attended Jacksonville High School in Jacksonville, Texas and won All-District honors, All-East Texas honors, and All-State honors as a kicker.

Utinahica

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

William Layton Nelson (born March 3, 1945) is a singer, songwriter, poet and musician currently (2009) living in Jacksonville, Florida.


2008 South Sydney Rabbitohs season

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.

Akarika Dawn

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.

Al Burt

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.

Anita Nall

They currently reside in Jacksonville, Florida, where Luke is employed as strength and conditioning coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Central Point, Oregon

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.

College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

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

Curtis Marsh, Sr. (born 1970), American football wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Saskatchewan Roughriders, father of the latter

David Garrard

Garrard and Leftwich would eventually be teammates with the Jacksonville Jaguars and compete for the team's starting quarterback position.

Donna Deegan

Donna was raised on the southside of Jacksonville and graduated from Bishop Kenny High School in 1979.

Edgar Huff

He then served as Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Air Station New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina, until his retirement on September 30, 1972.

Edwin M. Stanton School

Stanton College Preparatory School, modern successor to Jacksonville's Edwin M. Stanton School

Eric Hurley

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.

FCSL

Florida Coastal School of Law, A law school located in Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 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

Jacksonville Beaches

The first inhabitants of the Jacksonville Beaches area were Native Americans.

JSO

Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, a law enforcement entity in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, an American Symphony Orchestra in Jacksonville, Florida.

JSU Stadium

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, Texas

Larissa lies west of US Hiway 69, off Farm Road 855 and approximately half-way between Jacksonvile and Bullard, Texas.

Leave 'Em Laughing

Leave 'Em Laughing chapters are currently located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Twin Cities, Minnesota and Jacksonville, Florida.

Len Lacy

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.

Mary Martha Reid

Following her husband's death, Reid worked as a schoolteacher in Jacksonville and Fernandina.

Matt Morrison

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.

Montford Point Marine Association

The Montford Point Marine Association maintains a National Museum at Camp Gilbert H. Johnson, Jacksonville, North Carolina, and archives.

Nat Glover

An African-American had never served as mayor in Jacksonville, until Alvin Brown's election on May 19, 2011.

Navassa, North Carolina

The Gullah describes a group of Black African Americans along the southeast coast of the United States from Jacksonville, North Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida.

Neighborhoods of Jacksonville

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.

North Greenville University

Mac Brunson, 1978, Senior Pastor Jacksonville First Baptist Church

Parkway Properties

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.

Paxon School for Advanced Studies

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

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.

Phil Graham

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.

Point Bridge

Dames Point Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida

Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest

There are local ranger district offices located in Ashland, Butte Falls, Grants Pass, Jacksonville, and Prospect.

Rossington Collins Band

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

Shannon Ogden is a weekday anchor, alongside Jeannie Blaylock and Donna Deegan, on First Coast News at WTLV/WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida.

WAPE

WAPE-FM, a radio station (95.1 FM) licensed to Jacksonville, Florida, United States