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Jacksonville becomes seat of newly formed Duval County. [1] 1832 Town incorporated. [4] [3] William J. Mills becomes mayor. [1] 1838 - Bethel Baptist Church established. [5] 1845 - Florida becomes part of the United States. 1846 - October 12: Gale. [6] 1857 - City Park created. 1858 - Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central Railroad begins operating. [7]
In June 1941, land in the westernmost side of Duval County was earmarked for a second naval air facility. This became NAS Cecil Field, which during the Cold War was designated a Master Jet Base, the only one in the South. RF-8 Crusaders out of Cecil Field detected missiles in Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 1993, the Navy ...
The survey of the first section of Jacksonville was conducted in June 1822 under the supervision of Chaires and two other commissioners. Duval County was created out of St. Johns County on August 12, 1822, and Jacksonville was soon designated the county seat of Duval County. John Brady transferred a lot in trust to Chaires and Francis Ross as ...
In the United States, vital records are typically maintained at both the county [1] and state levels. [2] In the United Kingdom and numerous other countries vital records are recorded in the civil registry. In the United States, vital records are public and in most cases can be viewed by anyone in person at the governmental authority. [3]
Location of Duval County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Duval County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Duval County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts ...
The Neville Public Museum’s archaeologist at the time, James Quinn, would date the iron casket, a Fisk Metallic Burial Case, and the woman’s remains in it back to the early 1850s. It was the ...
A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...
The St. Augustine Record is a daily morning newspaper published in St. Augustine, Florida. The newspaper was founded in 1894 and is owned by Gannett as of November 2019. During the 1920s the Record Company, as it was then named, published a series of well-regarded Florida county histories.