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The Fernandina Beach Historic District is a U.S. historic district located in Fernandina Beach, Florida on Amelia Island.The Fernandina Beach Historic District was included on the National Register of Historic Places on July 20, 1973 and encompasses approximately 1,500 acres (610 ha), bounded by North 9th Street, Broome, Ash, South 5th Street, Date, and South 8th Street.
1857 U.S. Coast Survey Map or Chart of St. Marys River and Fernandina Harbor, Florida.1857. In 1853 the town of Fernandina moved about a mile further south when David Levy Yulee chartered his Florida Railroad line, the first cross-state railroad in Florida. Fernandina was to be the eastern terminus, but Yulee declared the rails could not cross ...
Fernandina Beach is a city in northeastern Florida and the county seat of Nassau County, Florida, United States.It is the northernmost city on Florida's Atlantic coast, situated on Amelia Island, and is one of the municipalities comprising Greater Jacksonville (formally the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Fernandina Island (Spanish: Isla Fernandina) is the youngest and third largest island in the Galapagos, as well as the furthest west.It has an area of 642 km 2 (248 sq mi) and a height of 1,476 m (4,843 ft), with a summit caldera about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) wide.
Yulee is located within a 15-mile radius of Amelia Island, Jacksonville International Airport, Florida State College at Jacksonville's Nassau Center, White Oak Conservation, Florida Fish and Nassau Wildlife Management Area, Four Creeks State Forest, Yulee Branch Library, Nassau County Sheriff's Office Headquarters, and the Florida Welcome ...
The Amelia Island Light is the oldest existing lighthouse in the state of Florida in the United States. It is located near the northern end of Amelia Island in the northeastern part of the state. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Its light marks St. Marys Entrance, the inlet leading to St. Marys River , the Cumberland Sound and the harbor of Fernandina Beach ...
State Road A1A (SR A1A) is a major north–south Florida State Road consisting of seven separate sections running a total of 338.752 miles (545.168 km) along the Atlantic Ocean, from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia on Amelia Island. It is the main road through most oceanfront towns.
The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River.Its 1,100 acres (4 km 2) include the 19th-century Fort Clinch, sand dunes, plains, maritime hammock and estuarine tidal marsh.