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5 unusual facts about St. Johns River


Cantino planisphere

It also maps the east coast of North America, at least from Florida to New York, and includes descriptive place names such as Rio de las Almadias (River of Rafts), which describes the unique vegetation rafts in the St. Johns River in Florida.

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.

Mug Race

The Mug Race is an annual sailboat race held on Florida's St. Johns River.

Uchee Billy

Billy was mistakenly reported to have been killed during a major sweep by United States forces along the St. Johns River in 1836.

Zaat

His first act of revenge on society that he feels has wronged him is to release several smaller walking catfish around the town's lakes and river (filmed in the St. Johns River near Green Cove Springs), an annoyance to the townspeople, and releases Zaat into the local water supply, rendering many of the townspeople ill.


Atlantic stingray

The Atlantic stingray is capable of tolerating varying salinities and can enter freshwater; it has been reported from the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, and the St. Johns River in Florida.

First Coast Outer Beltway

The beltway when finished will contain 13 interchanges and a new bridge across the St. Johns River near Green Cove Springs, Florida (currently known as the Shands Bridge).

Fort Caroline

A French expedition, organized by Protestant leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and led by the French Explorer Jean Ribault, had landed at the site on the May River (now the St. Johns River) in February 1562, before moving north to Port Royal Sound.

Timuquana Country Club

They adopted the name "Timuquana," a variation of the name of the Timucua, a Native American people who once lived along the St. Johns River.

William Backhouse Astor, Jr.

Liking the area, in 1874, he purchased a land tract of around 80,000 acres (320 km²) along the St. Johns River north of Orlando, Florida in an area now called Lake County, Florida.


see also

Barge Canal

Cross Florida Barge Canal, a never-completed project to connect the St. Johns River to the Gulf of Mexico

Indigenous peoples of Florida

Agua Fresca - Lived along the middle St. Johns River, part of the mission system.

Joe Pickens

After leaving office he was named President of St. Johns River Community College, now St. Johns River State College, on November 1, 2008, taking over for Robert L. McLendon, Jr.

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.

Point Bridge

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

Spanish missions in Florida

Following shortly after the success of the Mocama missions, the Spanish established missions among the Agua Fresca (Eastern Utina or Freshwater Timucua) along the middle St. Johns River, from roughly present-day Palatka south to Lake George.