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Swisher Gymnasium is a 1,360-seat multi-purpose arena [1] [2] in Jacksonville, Florida. Built in 1953, [3] it is currently the home to the Jacksonville University Dolphins men and women's basketball teams. Prior to the 2015–16 season, Jacksonville played its home games at both Swisher Gymnasium and the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. [2 ...
Impressed by the medical treatment received by members of Jacksonville's Davis family (then owners of the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain) at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, they rallied community and corporate support to bring Mayo Clinic to Jacksonville and donated a 392-acre parcel off San Pablo Road on which Mayo Clinic opened an outpatient consultation center on October 6th, 1986.
former Tampa mayor (1967-1974 and 1995-2003) Amy Hill Hearth: contemporary author of books including Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a New York Times bestseller turned into a Broadway play Frederick Ward Humphries II: FBI Special Agent known for disrupting a plot to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport Nneka Jones (2020)
Jacksonville: 1965 2007–present 2024–present — G.W. Bush: 21 District Judge Steven Douglas Merryday: Tampa: 1950 1992–present 2015–2020 — G.H.W. Bush: 33 District Judge Mary Stenson Scriven: Tampa: 1962 2008–present — — G.W. Bush: 36 District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell: Ft. Myers: 1962 2013–present — — Obama: 38 ...
In the 1870s Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes abandoned a medical career in Columbia, South Carolina and took over a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) family cattle ranch in rural Hernando County north of Tampa. The Lykes Family started the first school in this county in Spring Hill, Florida and the library at the county seat, Brooksville, Florida also bears the Lykes ...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway is a 7.1-mile (11.4 km) long expressway running along the eastern and northern edges of Downtown Jacksonville, Florida.It carries U.S. Route 1 Alternate (US 1 Alternate) from near its southern terminus to an interchange with US 1/US 17 (Main Street).
It included 7th through 12 grades until 1957, when Paxon Junior High was built across the street. In 1996, Paxon became a college preparatory school and an International Baccalaureate school, and took on its present-day name. Today, Paxon considers its chief rival to be Stanton College Preparatory School, another Jacksonville IB school. In 2008 ...
The Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions is a research center based at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.The Patel Center's main goals are to identify challenges in the developing world and find viable solutions to those problems, particularly issues related to potable water and sanitation, urbanization and migration, and sustainable activities.