Jacksonville Beach, Florida Jacksonville Beach, Florida City of Jacksonville Beach Images from top, left to right: Jacksonville Beach Pier, water tower, Jacksonville Beach City Hall, Sea Walk Pavilion, Adventure Landing, Jacksonville Beach Images from top, left to right: Jacksonville Beach Pier, water tower, Jacksonville Beach City Hall, Sea Walk Pavilion, Adventure Landing, Jacksonville Beach Location in Duval County and the state of Florida Location in Duval County and the state of Florida Website City of Jacksonville Beach Jacksonville Beach is a coastal resort town/city in Duval County, Florida, United States.
It was incorporated on May 22, 1907 as Pablo Beach, and would later change its name to Jacksonville Beach in 1925. The town/city is part of group of communities collectively referred to as the Jacksonville Beaches.
These communities include Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and Ponte Vedra Beach.
When the town/city of Jacksonville merged with Duval County in 1968, Jacksonville Beach, together with Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and Baldwin, voted to retain their own municipal governments.
As a result, people of Jacksonville Beach are also eligible to vote in mayoral election for the City of Jacksonville.
As of the 2010 census, Jacksonville Beach had a total populace of 21,362. 1.1 Pablo Beach 1.2 Jacksonville Beach The region around present-day Jacksonville Beach was first settled by Spanish settlers.
US Army volunteers marching on the beach amid the Spanish American War In 1883 a group of investors formed the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad with the intention of developing a resort improve that would be connected to Jacksonville by rail.
Mail was dispatched by horse and buggy up the beach to Mayport, and from there to Jacksonville by steamer.
On May 13, 1886, the town was retitled Pablo Beach after the San Pablo River. In 1885, the San Pablo Diego Beach Land Co.
Sold town lots ranging from $50 to $100 each along with 5 to 10 acres (2.0 to 4.0 ha) lots from $10 to $20 per acre inside 3 miles (4.8 km) of the new seaside resort "Pablo Beach". In September 1892, work on the wagon road to Pablo Beach (Atlantic Boulevard) was begun. The first resort hotel called the Murray Hall Hotel was established in mid 1886 but on August 7, 1890 it was finished in a fire. By 1900 the stockyards business began to have financial problem and Henry Flagler took over as part of his Florida East Coast Railway.
They encamped at Pablo Beach.
They were led by three-time presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan. After flooding in the camp at Pablo Beach the 3rd Nebraska moved to downtown Jacksonville. Jacksonville Beach The amusement park phase of Jacksonville Beach began in 1905 with The Pavilion which was later period and called Little Coney Island.
On June 15, 1925, the name Pablo Beach was changed to Jacksonville Beach. The Shad's Pier was created in 1922 by Charles Shad and with help by Martin Williams.
The locale of the coaster by the beach made it vulnerable to damage and was eventually deemed unsafe.
The only amusement park in Jacksonville Beach today is Adventure Landing.
Driving on the beach was prohibited in 1979. Pablo Beach made aviation history on February 24, 1921, Lt.
De - Voe Coney, in a transcontinental flight from San Diego, California, landed at Pablo Beach, having made the flight in 22 hours and 17 minutes, beating the old record, set two years earlier, by 3 hours and 32 minutes. Coney's record was soon eclipsed on September 5, 1922, by Jimmy Doolittle piloting a De Havilland DH-4 biplane from Pablo Beach to San Diego in an elapsed time of 21 hours and 19 minutes. In 1968 most inhabitants of Duval County voted to approve consolidation between the county and the City of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Beach, together with Atlantic Beach, Neptune Beach, and the Westside improve of Baldwin voted to retain their own municipal governments.
As such they are not part of the City of Jacksonville, but receive county-level services from Jacksonville, and vote for Jacksonville's mayor and City Council.
Freebird Live, as it later became, was a prominent music venue that became a stable for Jacksonville Beach for 16 years until its closure in 2016. In September 1999 Hurricane Floyd finished the Jacksonville Beach Pier.
Five years later the pier was rebuilt. In October 2016 Hurricane Matthew forced a mandatory evacuation for Jacksonville Beach. Hurricane Matthew came 40 miles off the coast of Jacksonville Beach causing primary flooding.
The Jacksonville Beach Pier was partially finished by Hurricane Matthew. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.0 square miles (56.9 km2).
7.3 square miles (19.0 km2) of it is territory and 14.6 square miles (37.9 km2) of it (66.61%) is water. Jacksonville Beach is the biggest town in the Jacksonville Beaches community.
See also: Architecture of Jacksonville In general, the architecture of Jacksonville varies in style and is not defined by any one characteristic, and Jacksonville Beach is no exception.
Designed by Marsh and Saxelbye, and instead of in 1925, Casa Marina Hotel is a Mission style hotel prominent in the 1920s when Jacksonville's beaches were being developed.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 2014. Jacksonville Beach is also home to a notable compilation of Mid-Century undivided architecture.
Jacksonville Beach has a humid subtropical climate.
Climate data for Jacksonville Beach See also: List of parks in Jacksonville Hanna Park is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) enhance beach and town/city park positioned near Mayport in the Jacksonville Beaches area.
It consists of 447 acres (1.81 km2) of mature coastal hammock, and was formerly known as Manhattan Beach, Florida's first beach improve for African Americans amid the reconstructionof segregation in the United States. Beach access point Jacksonville Beach Pier In the city, the populace was spread out with 18.0% under the age of 18, 8.7% from 18 to 24, 35.6% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Since the 1968 consolidation between Duval County and the City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach has been a separate municipality inside the merged town/city of Jacksonville.
As such, it has its own town/city manager, town/city council, and mayor, but it is subject to county-level governance by Jacksonville.
Beach Boulevard (US 90) joins Jacksonville Beach to the Southside neighborhood of Jacksonville.
It continues westward to downtown Jacksonville, via the Commodore Point Expressway and Hart Bridge.
Butler Bouleveard (SR 202) begins in southeast Jacksonville at Philips Highway (US 1) and ends in southern Jacksonville Beach at 3rd Street South (SR A1 - A).
SR A1 - A is a prominent seaside scenic route extending from Fernandina Beach to Key West.
In Jacksonville Beach it serves as the chief commercial corridor, extending the length of the beachside community.
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