Located three miles north of Downtown Jacksonville, Pearl Court is a historic early 20th century neighborhood you rarely hear about in today’s talking circles. Nevertheless, it is one of the earliest examples of infill development in what is now considered the city’s urban core. Read More
During its heyday, the Jacksonville Terminal was the largest passenger railroad station in the South and served as an official gateway to worldwide travelers entering downtown, handling as many as twenty thousand passengers and 200 trains each day. Now part of the Prime Osborn Convention Center, the old passenger concourse at the Jacksonville Terminal doesn’t attract the crowds it was originally designed to facilitate. Instead of welcoming thousands of visitors to town with its grand barrel-vaulted ceiling, the terminal’s main waiting room is completely locked off from the passenger concourse except for during the occasional special event. Entombed underground just south of the main waiting room, lies the ruins of the abandoned Jacksonville Terminal Subway. Read More
In 2014, the Jacksonville Civic Council played a significant role in challenging former mayor Alvin Brown's plans to replace the Landing. With current mayor Lenny Curry pursuing an even more expensive and controversial project to demolish the Landing with no replacement plan, why has the Civic Council stayed silent? Read More
Maintained by the National Park Service, Kingsley Plantation is the home of Florida's oldest surviving plantation house and related to one of the Antebellum South's most surprising historical civil rights cases. Read More
