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Museums Attractions In Jacksonville

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Hands On Children's Museum

Riverside/Avondale Historic District

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Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve

World of Beer

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Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens

Prime F. Osborn Convention Center

The Avenues

Riverwalk

Northeast Florida Angling Fishing Charters

Veterans Memorial Wall

Alexander Brest Planetarium

St Johns Town Center

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 nort...
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Museums Attractions In Jacksonville

1. Museum of Science and History Jacksonville
The Museum of Science & History is a museum in Jacksonville, Florida. It is a private, non-profit institution located on the Southbank Riverwalk, and the city's most visited museum. It specializes in science and local history exhibits. It features a main exhibit that changes quarterly, three floors of permanent exhibits, and the Bryan-Gooding Planetarium.
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2. Timucuan Ecological & Historical Preserve Jacksonville
The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia. They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35 chiefdoms, many leading thousands of people. The various groups of Timucua spoke several dialects of the Timucua language. At the time of European contact, the territory occupied by speakers of Timucuan dialects occupied about 19,200 square miles , and was home to between 50,000 and 200,000 Timucuans. It stretched from the Altamaha River and Cumberland Island in present-day Georgia as far south as Lake George in central Florida, and from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Aucilla River in the Florida Panhandle, though it reached the Gulf of Mexico at no more than a couple of points. The name Timucua came ...
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3. Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville Jacksonville
The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a cultural institute of the University of North Florida. One of the largest contemporary art institutions in the Southeastern United States, it presents exhibitions by international, national and regional artists.
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4. Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum Jacksonville
The Ritz Theatre is an African-American oriented theatre in the LaVilla neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. The theater, which seats 426, is used for a variety of music, dance and theatrical productions, as well as movies. The spacious lobby is also used for private functions. Just off the lobby is the LaVilla Museum which holds 11,000 square feet of exhibits. LaVilla is considered the mecca for African American culture and heritage in Florida.
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5. Mandarin Museum Jacksonville
Mandarin is a neighborhood located in the southernmost portion of Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida, United States. It is located on the eastern banks of the St. Johns River, across from Orange Park. Mandarin was named after the mandarin orange in 1830 by Calvin Reed, a prominent resident of the area . Once called a tropical paradise by author Harriet Beecher Stowe, the quaint area of Mandarin is marked by its history, ancient oak trees draped with Spanish moss, beautiful parks, marinas and more water views than any other area in Jacksonville. In the 19th century, Mandarin was a small farming village that shipped oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other fruits and vegetables to Jacksonville and points north on the steamships that traveled the St. Johns River. In 1864, the Union steamship...
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6. Museum of Southern History Jacksonville
The Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, also known as MOCA Jacksonville, is a contemporary art museum in Jacksonville, Florida, funded and operated as a cultural institute of the University of North Florida. One of the largest contemporary art institutions in the Southeastern United States, it presents exhibitions by international, national and regional artists.
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7. Hands On Children's Museum Jacksonville
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll or simply the King. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African-American music to a wider audience. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal...
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8. Alexander Brest Planetarium Jacksonville
Bryan-Gooding Planetarium in the Alexander Brest Science Theatre is a planetarium in the Museum of Science and History in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. It was built in 1988 and featured a 60-foot-diameter dome-shaped projection screen, JBL stereo sound system, and a Zeiss Jena Optical mechanical planetarium star projector. The facility has seating for 200, and approximately 60,000 people see a planetarium show each year.The planetarium was built with a donation by the late Alexander Brest, and was originally known as the Alexander Brest Planetarium. The theater initially used the Dove X / DORK automation system for slide projectors and special effects projectors. In 1996, the automation system was upgraded to the JHE automation system. The star projector was built by a German company named C...
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9. Battleship NORTH CAROLINA Wilmington
USS North Carolina is the lead ship of North Carolina-class battleship and the fourth warship in the U.S. Navy to be named for the State of North Carolina. She was the first newly constructed American battleship to enter service during World War II, and took part in every major naval offensive in the Pacific Theater of Operations; her 15 battle stars made her the most decorated American battleship of World War II. In the Battle of the Eastern Solomons in August 1942, the battleship's anti-aircraft barrage helped save the carrier USS Enterprise, thereby establishing the role of fast battleships as protectors of aircraft carriers. In all, North Carolina steamed over 300,000 miles, carried out nine shore bombardments, sank an enemy troopship, destroyed at least 24 enemy aircraft, and assisted...
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10. Norman Rockwell Museum Stockbridge
Norman Percevel Rockwell was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, Saying Grace, and the Four Freedoms series. He is also noted for his 64-year relationship with the Boy Scouts of America , during which he produced covers for their publication Boys' Life, calendars, and other illustrations. These works include popular images that reflect the Scout Oath and Scout Law such as The Scoutmaster, A Scout is Reverent and A Guiding...
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12. MASS MoCA North Adams
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum in a converted factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the United States. The complex was built by the Arnold Print Works, a business which operated on the site from 1860 to 1942, and was used by the Sprague Electric Company before its conversion. MASS MoCA opened with 19 galleries and 100,000 sq ft of exhibition space in 1999. It has expanded since, including the 2008 expansion of Building 7 and the May 2017 addition of roughly 130,000 square feet when Building 6 was opened.In addition to housing galleries and performing arts spaces, it also rents space to commercial tenants. It is the home of the Bang on a Can Summer Institut...
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13. Texas Prison Museum Huntsville Texas
Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit , nicknamed Walls Unit, is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States. The approximately 54.36-acre facility, near Downtown Huntsville, is operated by the Correctional Institutions Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, administered as within Region I. The facility, the oldest Texas state prison, opened in 1849.The unit houses the State of Texas execution chamber. It is the most active execution chamber in the United States, with 555 executions since 1982, when the death penalty was reinstated in Texas .
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14. Jacksonville Museum of Military History Jacksonville Arkansas
Jacksonville is a city in Pulaski County, Arkansas, United States, and a suburb of Little Rock. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 28,364. It is part of the Little Rock–North Little Rock–Conway Metropolitan Statistical Area with 729,135 people as of 2014. The city is named for Nicholas Jackson, a landowner who deeded the land for the railroad right-of-way to the Cairo & Fulton Railroad in 1870. The community evolved from the settlement surrounding the railroad depot, eventually incorporating in 1941. In 1941, construction began on the Arkansas Ordnance Plant , which served as the primary facility for the development of fuses and detonators for World War II. Following the war, AOP ceased operations and the land was sold for commercial interests, including the developm...
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15. East Texas Oil Museum Kilgore
The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930. Over 5.42 billion barrels of oil have been produced from it to-date. It is a component of the Mid-Continent Oil Province, the huge region of petroleum deposits extending from Kansas to New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. The field includes parts of Gregg, western Rusk, southern Upshur, southeastern Smith, and northeastern Cherokee counties in the northeastern part of the state. Overall the field is about 45 miles long on the north-south axis, and five miles across. Interstate 20 cuts ...
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Top 10 reasons NOT to Move to Jacksonville, Florida. It's not the worst city, but still.

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Florida aka theSunshine State is one of our most favourite states in all of America. You've got miles of beautiful beaches, tons of adventurous activities, an extremely diverse wildlife, and of course theme parks!! We ended up spending close to 2 weeks in Florida, and to be honest we could have stayed longer... Here are our Top 10 things you have to do when you're in Florida!!

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Explore Jacksonville, Florida USA

Primarily shot during Memorial Day weekend in '13, it was fun to reminisce about some of the experiences I had growing up in Jacksonville. The River City in all it's glory. Here's one for the folks who think there's nothing to do here. Some highlights of my home town.

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10 Best Places to Live in Florida

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For many, making the move to start a new life in the sunshine state would be a dream come true. The cost of living in Florida is surprisingly low and many of its suburbs and small towns have impressively low crime rates. Lots of tourism means lots of job opportunities. The state’s manufacturing and financial industries are also flourishing with job openings. The weather can be temperamental, but the temperature is warm mostly all year-round. Where should you start to figure out what places are the best to live? Read on for our 10 best places to live in Florida.
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Florida has long been known as a great place to retire, with its warm year-round temperatures and selection of various types of retirement communities. With attractions ranging from beaches and nature preserves, to shopping and dining, anyone can find a way to enjoy a Florida retirement. There are choices of waterfront, small-town, large metro and resort-like communities. Whatever your preference is, you’re sure to find it among the choices. Considering the entire splendor Florida has to offer, both natural and cultural, here are 10 of the best places in Florida for retirees.
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These Are The 10 WORST Jacksonville Neighborhoods To Live

Where are the 10 worst neighborhoods to live in Jacksonville? We looked at several factors, including quality of life, employment rates, home values and crime. The results: The 10 worst neighborhoods you could live in Jacksonville.

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Featuring a mix of white sand beaches, colorful gardens and state parks, North Florida is home to some of the Sunshine State’s most beautiful, untouched landscapes. Learn more in this video.

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America’s fastest-growing cities (MSA) provides a holistic picture of places on the upswing. Forbes’ annual list looks at the growth of population, employment, wages, and economic output. They also use home price growth as a proxy for wealth. Here are the 25 metropolitan areas (including divisions) across the country experiencing the biggest overall surges, plus the growth rates and projections that got them on the list. The methodology and trends behind this list can be accessed here:

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6. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise-Nevada-
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12. West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach-Florida-
13. North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton-Florida-
14. Lakeland-Winter Haven-Florida-
15. Raleigh-North Carolina
16. Jacksonville-Florida
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18. Colorado Springs-Colorado
19. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia-NC-SC
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