Fort George Island Ribault Club and Florida History
Kayaking around Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Fl and talking about Florida history.
Places to see in ( Jacksonville - USA )
Places to see in ( Jacksonville - USA )
Jacksonville is a large city in northeastern Florida where the St. John’s River meets the Atlantic Ocean. A regional business center, it has many museums and cultural offerings. Swimming and surfing are popular at nearby barrier island beaches such as Jacksonville Beach and Neptune Beach. Championship golf courses in the area include Ponte Vedra Beach’s TPC Sawgrass, headquarters of the PGA Tour.
Jacksonville is situated on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida. It is the most populous city in the of Florida measured by the number of residents. But Jacksonville covers an enormous area, and is in fact the largest city in area in the continental United States. The city has a large area, but also has a low density rate. The metropolitan area extends beyond Duval County into Nassau, St. Johns, Baker and Clay counties and has a population of more than 1.25 million people. The city's metropolitan population is not the largest in Florida, it is exceeded by the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, Tampa, and Orlando metro areas.
Jacksonville is widely known as a hard-working, blue-collar city. While a substantial portion of Jacksonville's economy is supported by both of its large U.S. Navy bases (Naval Air Station Jacksonville and Naval Station Mayport), it is also a hotbed for the banking, logistics, insurance, and healthcare sectors. The downtown skyline, notable for its bridges of various styles and colors, spans along the St. Johns River with a pedestrian river walk located on each bank. Although the bulk of Jacksonville's population is suburban in nature and spread throughout Duval County, renewed development efforts are currently underway in the urban core along with preservation efforts in its historic districts. Jacksonville is nicknamed JAX, or 'The Bold City'
At a whopping 840 sq miles, Jacksonville is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States and the most populous in Florida. The city sprawls along three meandering rivers, with sweeping bridges and twinkling city lights reflected in the water. A glut of high-rises, corporate HQs and chain hotels can make 'Jax' feel a little soulless, but patient exploration yields some interesting streets, curious characters and a Southern-fried, friendly heart.
The city's museums and restored historic districts are worth a wander if you have the time, and the Five Points and San Marco neighborhoods are charming, walkable areas lined with bistros, boutiques and bars. The Jacksonville area beaches – a world unto themselves – are 30 to 50 minutes' drive from the city, depending on traffic and where you're coming from.
A lot to see in Jacksonville such as :
Amelia Island
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens
Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park
Kingsley Plantation
Little Talbot Island State Park
Fort Caroline
Fort Clinch State Park
Big Talbot Island State Park
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
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Talbot Island
Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve
The Catty Shack Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary
World Golf Village
Amelia Island State Park
Friendship Fountain
Huguenot Memorial Park
Big Talbot Island State Park
Adventure Landing Jacksonville Beach
Little Talbot
Little Talbot Island
Metropolitan Park
Castaway Island Preserve
Memorial Park
Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens
Fort George Island Cultural State Park
Southbank Riverwalk
Mickler Beach
George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park
Mayport Naval Station
Tree Hill Nature Center
Alpine Groves Park
Beaches Museum
Budweiser Brewery Experience
Theodore Roosevelt Area at Timucuan Preserve
South Beach Park and Sunshine Playground
Kelly Seahorse Ranch
Shipwreck Island Water Park
Big Talbot Island Boneyard Beach
Deep Creek State Forest
Jacksonville-Baldwin Rail Trail
Walter Jones Historic Park
Mickler's Landing
Pumpkin Hill Creek Preserve State Park
Dutton Island Preserve
Treaty Oak Park
John T. Alsop Jr. Bridge
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Seaton Creek Historic Preserve
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Amelia Island/Fort Clinch, Florida
Short slide show of our December 2014 trip to Amelia Island.
Amelia Island is an island in Nassau County, Florida. One of the southernmost of the Sea Islands, a chain of barrier islands stretching along the east coast of the United States from South Carolina to Florida, it is 13 miles (21 km) long and approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) wide at its widest point. The communities of Fernandina Beach and Amelia City are both located on the island.
Named for Princess Amelia, daughter of George II of Great Britain, the island has changed hands between colonial powers a number of times. It is claimed that eight flags have flown over Amelia Island: French, Spanish, British, Patriot, Green Cross, Mexican, Confederate, and United States.
Fort Clinch:
At over 1,400 acres, Fort Clinch State Park is situated on Florida’s northernmost barrier island- Amelia Island. The park provides exceptional recreational activities immersed among beautiful natural communities, as well as wildlife viewing, historic attractions and unparalleled living history interpretive programs.
The park’s 3-mile shoreline and a 1/2–mile long fishing pier offer a wide variety of family-friendly recreational activities including swimming, fishing, sunbathing and wildlife viewing. Shelling and shark-tooth hunting are popular activities near the pier and along the St. Mary’s Inlet. 68 campsites and a large group camping facility offer unparalleled overnight experiences in the Real Florida! Enjoy miles of bicycling on the historic oak-canopy drive, or for the more adventurous, hiking & biking the 6-mile off-road multi-use trail. The Park offers a guided nature walk at the Willow Pond Nature Trail every Saturday at 10:30 a.m.
Visit historic Fort Clinch & step back to the year 1864, as soldiers reenact life during the Civil War. Explore the many rooms, galleries and grounds of the fort as you learn how the soldiers worked and lived each day. Today, park staff provide living history interpretations of the life of a Union soldier, a 1st New York Volunteer Engineer, who garrisoned the fort during the Civil War. The Fort is open 365 days a year from 9am-5pm.
Camping:
Fort Clinch - Camping Full Facility
Visitors can enjoy the conveniences of modern camping while taking in the rich cultural and natural history of one of Florida's oldest and most diverse state parks. Nestled at Florida's most northeasterly tip, Fort Clinch State Park offers 70 campsites in two separate and unique campgrounds. The Amelia River campground is located at the north end of the park along the St. Mary’s River. Shady, Spanish moss-laden oak trees offer an old Florida ambience to the Amelia River Campground's 43 sites while providing a breathtaking view of the Amelia River just a short distance from each campsite. The Amelia River Campground bathroom is air conditioned during the warmer months.
Located along the northeast tip of the park, just steps from the ocean, Atlantic Beach Campground offers 21 RV and six tent-only sites which are typical of the Florida beach atmosphere surrounded by snow white sand dunes and sunny sites. Both campgrounds have a dump station, soft drink vending machines, laundry machines and beautiful new accessible heated bathrooms with showers.
Each campsite has a fire ring, picnic table, potable water and a mixture of 30 and 50-amp electric hook-ups. Specific details about each site can be viewed on Reserve America. The dump station facilities are free of charge to registered campers, but are also available for day visitors who wish to utilize these services for a fee. Well-behaved and attended pets are welcome at both campgrounds.
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Exploring Northeast Florida's Fort Caroline National Memorial
Tucked along the marshy bank of St. Johns River, the Fort Caroline National Memorial has been around for centuries, including — most notably — the short-lived French colonization of Florida’s northeastern coast in the 16th century.
Timucua Miracle Stories: European Folklore Through the Eyes of Florida Indians
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Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Southeastern Indians & Spanish Missions
A speaker symposium focused on telling the stories of Florida's Indians at the time of Spanish missions. It featured five experts on the subject speaking on varied topics related to the main theme.
The 2017 event was hosted at Florida Southwestern State College. Lee Trust for Historic Preservation, in partnership with Friends of Mound Key, Florida SouthWestern State College, and Southwest Florida Archaeology Society, were pleased to offer the one-day series of presentations by internationally renowned speakers.
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During the sixteenth century, France was determined to expand its empire. Spain, the world's leading power, already had a foothold in the Americas, and France wanted a share of the riches the Spanish were gaining through trade and plunder. France's first attempt to stake a permanent claim in North America was at La Caroline, a settlement near the mouth of the St. Johns River in Florida.
At first, the settlement was to be a commercial venture, but religious conflict in France broadened the goals. The growing persecution of French Protestants (Huguenots) led their most powerful member, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, to make a proposal to the crown: the colony could also be a refuge for Huguenots. An exploratory expedition, commanded by Jean Ribault, left France in February 1562. On this voyage, he erected a monument at the River of May (now known as the St. Johns River).
Permanent settlement of 200 soldiers and artisans began in 1564, led by Rene de Goulaine de Laudonniere, who had accompanied Ribault on the previous expedition. With help from the Timucua Indians, the colonists began building a village and fort on the river's south bank, naming the area La Caroline after their king, Charles IX.
Three hundred colonists left France to establish a permanent settlement in North America. Included were some of the leading families of France, wearing gilded armor and brightly colored clothes. Other representatives of French society included artisans to provide entertainment and produce drawings, and laborers to build the fort. The desire for permanency was illustrated by the inclusion of women, of whom at least four had husbands. Most were Huguenots, but there were also Catholics and agnostics. The colonists were seeking opportunity and freedom in a distant land.
French artist Jacques le Moyne de Morgues came with Laudonniere to Florida in 1564. His job was to paint images of the people, flora and fauna, and geography of this part of the New World. Le Moyne was one of the few who escaped from Fort de la Caroline when the Spanish attacked in 1565. He found refuge on a French boat, along with Laudonniere and several others, and returned to Europe, where he recreated from memory scenes of the New World.
In Florida, both Spain and France hoped to claim their piece of the new world. By the time the French planted their settlement at La Caroline, Spain was entrenched in South and Central America and its sea routes through the Caribbean were well established. Spanish ships bearing gold and silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru stopped at Havana before sailing for Spain. They rode the Gulf Stream through what is now the Straits of Florida and up the southeastern coast of North America. The Spanish were uneasy about a French settlement because their treasure ships, while they followed the Florida coast, could be easy prey for suspected French raiders in their nearby haven at La Caroline.
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French explorer Jean Ribault was impressed by the first native peoples he encountered in Florida. The Timucuans under Chief Saturiwa, who met the French at the mouth of the River of May in 1562, were one of a number of Timucua-speaking tribes who inhabited central and north Florida and southeastern Georgia. They were the final stage of a culture whose way of life had remained essentially unchanged for more than 1000 years.
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Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM Research Reserve) is dedicated to the conservation of natural biodiversity and cultural resources through research and monitoring to guide science-based stewardship and education strategies.
GTM Research Reserve protects 73,352 acres south of the City of Jacksonville (Duval County) in St. Johns County and Flagler County on the northeast coast of Florida, one of the fastest growing regions in the state. The populations of St. Johns County and the adjacent Flagler, Putnam and Volusia counties have grown 20 percent since 1990 and are projected to grow an additional 20 percent by 2010. More than 1.3 million people live within 50 miles of GTM Research Reserve, including the cities of Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Palatka, Daytona and New Smyrna.
These protected areas provide habitat for a wide variety of fish and wildlife. A species list recently compiled for Guana River Marsh Aquatic Preserve indicated the presence of at least 44 mammal, 358 bird, 41 reptile, 21 amphibian, 303 fish and 580 plant species. It contains habitats essential to 48 protected animals and 8 protected plants.
GTM Research Reserve is also important for the economy because these include 16 species that are fished or harvested commercially and 18 species that are fished recreationally.
GTM Research Reserve is geographically separated into a northern and southern component, separated by the City of St. Augustine. The northern component (referred to locally as Guana) is associated with the Tolomato and Guana River estuaries and the southern component is associated with the Matanzas River.
The northern component consists of:
Guana River Marsh Aquatic Preserve.
Guana River Wildlife Management Area.
Stokes Landing Conservation Area.
Deep Creek State Forest.
The GTM Environmental Education Center (EEC) is located in the northern component of GTM Research Reserve ten miles north of St. Augustine on State Road A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach, and serves as the administrative, education, research and stewardship facilities for the northern component of GTM Research Reserve.
The southern component of GTM Research Reserve consists of:
Pellicer Creek Aquatic Preserve.
Faver-Dykes State Park.
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.
Moses Creek Conservation Area.
Pellicer Creek Conservation Area.
Fort Matanzas National Monument.
Matanzas State Forest.
Princess Place Preserve.
The River to Sea Preserve at Marineland.
Other state sovereign submerged lands adjacent to the Matanzas River within its boundary.
There is a smaller office building on AIA within the River to the Sea Preserve in Marineland. The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund (the Trustees) has designated CAMA to manage Guana River Marsh Aquatic Preserve (excluding Guana River Wildlife Management Area) and Pellicer Creek Aquatic Preserve.
History of the Southern United States
The history of the Southern United States reaches back hundreds of years and includes the Mississippian people, well known for their mound building. European history in the region began in the very earliest days of the exploration and colonization of North America. Spain, France, and England eventually explored and claimed parts of what is now the Southern United States, and the cultural influences of each can still be seen in the region today. In the centuries since, the history of the Southern United States has recorded a large number of important events, including the American Revolution, the American Civil War, the ending of slavery, and the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Explore Black History in St. Augustine
St. Augustine is well-known as the oldest continually occupied city in the continental United States, but it also has a very rich and significant history for African-Americans. Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned African settlement in what would become the United States, was a refuge for slaves who escaped English colonies in the Carolinas. St. Augustine was also a crucial battleground in America's civil rights struggle, joining in the fight for racial equality.
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:33 1.1 Early history
00:05:13 1.2 Founding and 19th century
00:07:36 1.3 20th and 21st centuries
00:07:46 1.3.1 1900 to 1939
00:10:12 1.3.2 1940 to 1979
00:13:48 1.3.3 1980 to present
00:15:23 2 Geography
00:15:32 2.1 Cityscape
00:15:41 2.2 Topography
00:17:29 2.3 Architecture
00:19:30 2.4 Neighborhoods
00:20:27 2.5 Climate
00:24:27 2.6 Parks
00:25:12 2.6.1 National parks
00:25:39 2.6.2 State parks
00:26:07 2.6.3 City parks
00:31:30 2.6.4 Other
00:32:01 3 Demographics
00:38:08 3.1 Religion
00:40:42 4 Economy
00:42:27 4.1 Banking and financial services
00:44:44 4.2 Logistics
00:46:55 4.3 Media and technology
00:50:34 4.4 Military and defense
00:53:41 5 Culture
00:53:49 5.1 Leisure and entertainment
00:59:24 5.2 Literature, film and television
01:02:05 5.3 Museums and art galleries
01:05:35 5.4 Music
01:07:45 5.5 Sports
01:09:47 6 Government and politics
01:09:57 6.1 Government
01:13:02 6.2 Politics
01:14:39 7 Education
01:14:48 7.1 Primary and secondary education
01:16:33 7.2 Colleges and universities
01:17:55 7.3 Public libraries
01:19:30 8 Infrastructure
01:19:39 8.1 Transportation
01:19:47 8.1.1 Roadways and bridges
01:23:00 8.1.2 Transit system
01:24:29 8.1.3 Modal characteristics
01:25:35 8.1.4 Rail
01:26:43 8.1.5 Airports
01:27:45 8.1.6 Seaports
01:29:50 8.2 Utilities
01:30:58 8.3 Health
01:32:02 9 Notable people
01:32:11 10 Sister cities
01:32:25 11 See also
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Jacksonville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Florida and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968. Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits. With an estimated population of 892,062 as of 2017, Jacksonville is also the most populous city in the southeastern United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,631,488 and is the fourth largest in Florida.Jacksonville is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River in the First Coast region of northeast Florida, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Georgia state line and 340 miles (550 km) north of Miami. The Jacksonville Beaches communities are along the adjacent Atlantic coast. The area was originally inhabited by the Timucua people, and in 1564 was the site of the French colony of Fort Caroline, one of the earliest European settlements in what is now the continental United States. Under British rule, settlement grew at the narrow point in the river where cattle crossed, known as Wacca Pilatka to the Seminole and the Cow Ford to the British. A platted town was established there in 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain; it was named after Andrew Jackson, the first military governor of the Florida Territory and seventh President of the United States.
Harbor improvements since the late 19th century have made Jacksonville a major military and civilian deep-water port. Its riverine location facilitates Naval Station Mayport, Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the U.S. Marine Corps Blount Island Command, and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport. Jacksonville's military bases and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay form the third largest military presence in the United States. Significant factors in the local economy include services such as banking, insurance, healthcare and logistics. As with much of Florida, tourism is important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf. People from Jacksonville may be called Jacksonvillians or Jaxsons (also spelled Jaxons).
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Award winning nature writer and documentary filmmaker Bill Belleville gives a compelling presentation on identifying our water-driven landscapes in Florida, and in parts of the Caribbean Basin. In doing so, he helps us understand how other writers and artists have been influenced by them over time. He also briefly describes an oceanographic expedition in which FAU Harbor Branch was commissioned by the Discovery Channel to explore the remote coasts and waters of Cuba.
Bill shows vivid photographic images of our water-shaped landscapes that have historically and culturally helped us acknowledge a “sense of place”. He describes the value of such natural systems, and how they have helped underpin the high rate of biological diversity of both plants and animals found in Florida. He echoes the observation of Pulitzer winning scientist E.O. Wilson that the greater the biological diversity, the greater the cultural diversity by explaining how Native American culture in Florida was enriched by an abundance of rainfall – which led to flowing rivers and fresh water springs.
The subject of our springs are of special interest since Florida has more of them than any other region of the world – yet, most of our major springs are now facing urgent threats to their health. And, when we lose a vital natural treasure like this, how will it affect the culture it has helped shape?
The Call to Serve: Untold Stories of Extraordinary Service in the Wake of 9/11 | Talks at Google
A Veterans Week celebration focused on celebrating the heroic and untold stories of the very first US military service members to deploy to Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Carrie Laureno of the Google Veterans Network moderates a discussion with some of these service members as we honor their work and the efforts of all who followed in their footsteps.
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