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History Of Jacksonville, Florida And Vicinity 1513 To 1924, T. Frederick Davis
History Of Jacksonville, Florida And Vicinity 1513 To 1924, T. Frederick Davis
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Two times there was a wholesale destruction of Jacksonville's official records-in the War Between the States and by the fire of May 3, 1901. The author's effort in this work was to collect all of the available authentic matter for permanent preservation in book form. The record closes as of December 31, 1924. The record is derived from many sources-long forgotten books and pamphlets; old letters and diaries that have been stored away as family memorials of the past; newspapers beginning with the St. Augustine Herald in 1822 (on file at the Congressional Library at Washington) fragmentary for the early …