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Jacksonville Before Consolidation, James B. Crooks
Jacksonville Before Consolidation, James B. Crooks
Florida Historical Quarterly
At the inauguration of the new Jacksonville city-county consolidated government in October 1968, Local Government Study Commission Chairman James Jacqueline Daniel wrote that “Jacksonville had experienced a political renaissance.” Ten years later, Jacksonville mayor Hans Tanzler declared that consolidated government was “the salvation” of the city. In 1993, at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of consolidated government, then-Mayor Ed Austin called for rekindling “the spirit that drove the consolidation effort . . . because our form of government is the envy of cities around the world.” Tanzler, chairing that celebratory occasion, agreed, adding, “[c]onsolidation has been described as Jacksonville’s ‘Greatest Moment.’“
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 77, Number 2. Includes the Table of Contents
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Manuscript Acquisitions And Accessions, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following are recent manuscript acquisitions and accessions as reported by Florida universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and other institutions. Anyone interested in particular collections should correspond with the organization in question.
The Beginnings Of Big Sugar In Florida, 1920-1945, John A. Heitmann
The Beginnings Of Big Sugar In Florida, 1920-1945, John A. Heitmann
Florida Historical Quarterly
During the past several years, the Florida sugar industry has been under the journalist’s microscope and scrutinized as no other agricultural enterprise in America. If we are to believe the evidence presented in Alec Wilkinson’s Big Sugar, or essays written over the past decade that appeared in Forbes, George, the Nation, and Florida Trend, one must conclude that Florida sugar interests are economically privileged and politically powerful, ruthlessly exploitative towards labor, and, to top it off, largely responsible for the environmental degradation of the Everglades.1 During the 1980s the focus of the attack centered on the industry’s use of imported …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE INDIANS’ NEW SOUTH: CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE COLONIAL SOUTHEAST, by James Axtell, reviewed by Theda Perdue; “A ROGUE’S PARADISE”: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN ANTEBELLUM FLORIDA, 1821-1861, by James M. Denham, reviewed by Maxwell Bloomfield; BUILDING MARVELOUS MIAMI, by Nicholas N. Patricios, reviewed by Donald W. Curl; JOHN ELLIS: MERCHANT, MICROSCOPIST, NATURALIST, AND KING’S AGENT— A BIOLOGIST OF HIS TIMES, by Julius Groner and Paul F. S. Cornelius, reviewed by Roy A. Rauschenberg; “WHAT NATURE SUFFERS TO GROE”: LIFE, LABOR, AND LANDSCAPE ON THE GEORGIA COAST, 1680-1920, by Mart A. Stewart, reviewed by Jeffrey R. Young; LETTERS OF DELEGATES TO …
Florida's Flying Minute Men: The Civil Air Patrol, 1941-1943, Thomas Reilly
Florida's Flying Minute Men: The Civil Air Patrol, 1941-1943, Thomas Reilly
Florida Historical Quarterly
As the United States teetered on the brink of war, many worried that the country was woefully unprepared to defend its own shores. Several prominent Americans developed the idea of a civilian defense force to patrol the offshore waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico. A committee headed by Gill Robb Wilson, National Aeronautic Association president and aviation editor for the New York Herald Tribune, presented a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) plan to Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director of the United States Civilian Defense, mayor of New York City, and World War I flyer. Unlike many …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A HISTORY OF THE TIMUCUA INDIANS AND MISSIONS, by John H. Hann, reviewed by Charles Hudson; MIAMI: THE AMERICAN CROSSROAD, A CENTENNIAL JOURNEY 1896-1996, by Arva Moore Parks and Gregory W. Bush, reviewed by Paul S. George; THE NEW ORLEANS CABILDO: COLONIAL LOUISIANA’S FIRST CITY GOVERNMENT, 1769-1803, by Gilbert C. Din and John E. Harkins, reviewed by F. Todd Smith; JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO THE GEORGIA ISLANDS OF ST. CATHERINES, GREEN, OSSABAW, SAPELO, ST. SIMONS, JEKYLL, AND CUMBERLAND WITH COMMENTS ON THE FLORIDA ISLANDS OF AMELIA, TALBOT, AND ST. GEORGE IN 1753, edited by Virginia Steele Wood and Mary …
Volusia: The Origin Of A Name, Donald C. Gaby
Volusia: The Origin Of A Name, Donald C. Gaby
Florida Historical Quarterly
The origin of the name “Volusia” for the county and community in Florida has been a mystery. Although at least three explanations have been offered, many professional historians writing of Florida or of Volusia County claim that the origin of the name is unknown.
A Myth Reflects A Generation’S Technological Disillusionment: Edison And The Electrification Of Fort Myers, Michele Wehrwein Albion
A Myth Reflects A Generation’S Technological Disillusionment: Edison And The Electrification Of Fort Myers, Michele Wehrwein Albion
Florida Historical Quarterly
Over the past century and a half, Thomas Alva Edison has been variously regarded regionally, nationally, and globally as a wizard, an American icon, and a genius. He ushered in the modern era with his invention of the incandescent light, phonograph, and improvements to the battery, telephone, and motion picture. But accompanying Edison’s accomplishments is a body of myth. Two related myths regarding the introduction of technology in Fort Myers, Florida, reflect Edison’s ability to inspire fiction. These myths demonstrate how one generation’s frustration with the failure of contemporary technology prompted it to create a tale of the previous generation’s …
Ditches And Dreams: Nelson Fell And The Rise Of Fellsmere, Gordon Patterson
Ditches And Dreams: Nelson Fell And The Rise Of Fellsmere, Gordon Patterson
Florida Historical Quarterly
On April 28, 1911, both the St. Lucie Tribune and the Fort Pierce News published descriptions of an innovative land development project. The Fellsmere Farms Company proposed to drain 118,000 acres of land at the headwaters of the St. Johns River. Since 1910, the newly formed corporation had “shunned publicity, preferring to devote all the time, energy and money to development work.“1 Fellsmere Farms Company was the brainchild of Nelson Fell, an itinerant Englishman and hydraulic engineer with more than three decades of experience in directing land development in Florida. The company’s unusual name, a 1913 sales brochure explained, was …
"Was I A Member Of Congress . . .": Zachary Taylor's Letter To John J. Crittenden, January 12, 1838, Concerning The Second Seminole War, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
"Was I A Member Of Congress . . .": Zachary Taylor's Letter To John J. Crittenden, January 12, 1838, Concerning The Second Seminole War, Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
Florida Historical Quarterly
On January 12, 1838, Colonel Zachary Taylor penned a letter to his close friend and confidant Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky. Eighteen days earlier, on Christmas Day, 1837, Taylor’s command fought the largest and bloodiest pitched battle of the Second Seminole War at Lake Okeechobee. As he wrote from Fort Gardiner on the Kissimmee River, the army was preparing to extend its campaign even further inland.
Addison Mizner: Promoter In Paradise, Raymond B. Vickers
Addison Mizner: Promoter In Paradise, Raymond B. Vickers
Florida Historical Quarterly
California's gold rush of 1849 and the Klondike gold rush of 1898 pale when compared to the Florida land rush of 1925. As tales of quick profits captured the attention of the nation, the boom in paradise became the greatest speculative frenzy in history. 1 Florida’s climate, new roads, and low taxes had appeal, but the chance of easy money fueled the hysteria. Real estate promoters littered the state with “the joyful and confident devastation of development.” Anything could happen as subdivisions rose from snake-infested mangrove swamps. Not since the days of the carpetbaggers had so many opportunists and swindlers …
Raising Cane And Refining Sugar: Florida Crystals And The Fame Of Fellsmere, Gordon Patterson
Raising Cane And Refining Sugar: Florida Crystals And The Fame Of Fellsmere, Gordon Patterson
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Friday, November 13, 1931, the Vero Beach Press-Journal reported that “the possibilities of commercial sugar cane production are to be thoroughly tested by the Ammoniate Products Corporation, owners of large acreage within the Fellsmere Drainage District.“1 Four days later the editorial writer for the Fort Pierce News-Tribune declared that the reports of positive economic development in Indian River County were based on more than “synthetic enthusiasm.” Real progress was taking place. Frank W. Heiser, general manager of the soon-to-be-defunct Ammoniate Products Corporation acknowledged that he planned to clear 1,000 acres of muck land “for the planting of sugar cane.“2 …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE NEW HISTORY OF FLORIDA, edited by Michael Gannon, reviewed by Thomas Graham; PIONEER FAMILY: LIFE ON FLORIDA’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRONTIER, by Michel Oesterreicher, reviewed by James M. Denham; HUGH ROBINSON: PIONEER AVIATOR, by George L. Vergara, reviewed by James A. Schnur; HAVANA USA: CUBAN EXILES AND CUBAN AMERICANS IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1959-1994, by Maria Cristina Garcia, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; THE SEARCH FOR THOMAS F. WARD, TEACHER OF FREDERICK DELIUS, by Don C. Gillespie, reviewed by Wiley L. Housewright; FIFTY YEARS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY: SELECTED WORKS OF JOHN W. GRIFFIN, edited by Patricia C. Griffin, reviewed by John H. …
The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946, Robert A. Taylor
The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946, Robert A. Taylor
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most serious challenges facing the Allies in World War II was the necessity of conducting amphibious landings against fortified enemy coasts. German and Japanese engineers shaped concrete, metal, and wood into a variety of fixed obstacles designed to damage or destroy landing craft and stop an invasion before it ever could really begin. By the end of 1942 American military planners were already pondering how to smash through such defenses so the European continent could be liberated from the Nazis. Soldiers, sailors, and civilian scientists sought a mechanical means of removing these sometimes ingenious traps. In the …
"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education, Stephen D. Andrews
"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education, Stephen D. Andrews
Florida Historical Quarterly
Late in 1919, Grover Rogers returned to the cotton farms of Albertville, Alabama, after service in the “Great War.” Rogers had received his discharge six months earlier, and had worked his way slowly from Florida, through Georgia, and finally home to Alabama. Rocking on the front porch of his family’s sharecropping shack, Grover told an avid audience of family and neighbors about his travels. Along with tales of battle and Europe, he spoke of a hamlet called Plant City, Florida.
City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s, John F. Eades
City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s, John F. Eades
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1922 members of the newly formed Planning Board of the City of West Palm Beach agreed to have their municipality enter into a contact with city planner John Nolen. At the time, Nolen’s planning firm was the largest in the United States, and Nolen, along with a small host of other planners, was busy laying the cornerstones of the planning profession. The shaky business relationship between Nolen and West Palm Beach was a short one, lasting only about a year. By the time Nolen fulfilled his contractual obligations, the planning activity in West Palm Beach had fallen into utter …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
SPANISH TREASURE. FLEETS, by Timothy R. Walton, reviewed by Eugene Lyon; FLORIDA IN POETRY A HISTORY OF THE IMAGINATION, edited by Jane Anderson Jones and Maurice J. O’Sullivan, reviewed by Kevin M. McCarthy; THE COLUMBIA RESTAURANT SPANISH COOKBOOK, by Adela Hernandez Gonzmart and Ferdie Pacheco, reviewed by Martin Favata; HISTORY OF BREVARD COUNTY, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by Gordon Patterson; A HISTORY OF ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FLORIDA, by Jerrell H. Shofner, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; FLAGS ALONG THE COAST; CHARTING THE GULF OF MEXICO, 1519-1759: A REAPPRAISAL, by Jack Jackson, reviewed by William S. Coker; TIDECRAFT: THE BOATS OF …
History News, Florida Historical Society
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Awards and Honors, Meetings and Calls for Papers, News
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Asian Immigration To Florida, Raymond A. Mohl
Asian Immigration To Florida, Raymond A. Mohl
Florida Historical Quarterly
By the mid-1990s, few states could challenge Florida’s Sunbelt growth image and megastate status. Now the fourth largest state, following California, Texas, and New York, Florida has had a dramatically rising demographic trajectory for most of the twentieth century. Indeed, the state’s population growth rate has never fallen below 28 percent a decade since 1900; it was much higher than that during the boom years of the 1920s (52 percent), the 1950s (79 percent), and the 1970s (44 percent). Since 1960, however, a substantial portion of the state’s new population has come as a consequence of immigration. Careful estimates in …
Hurston Goes To War: The Army Signal Corps In Saint Augustine, Gordon Patterson
Hurston Goes To War: The Army Signal Corps In Saint Augustine, Gordon Patterson
Florida Historical Quarterly
In the fall of 1942, Zora Neale Hurston returned to Saint Augustine. She had come to “this city because it [was] a quiet place to sit down and write.“1 By January 1943, she had moved to Daytona Beach. Her brief stay in Saint Augustine was eventful. She finished revising Dust Trucks on a Road and J. B. Lippincott published it in November. Simultaneously, Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings established a “close friendship.“2 Hurston’s relations, however, were less cordial with William Gray, Jr., the newly appointed president of Florida Normal and Industrial Institute. She let it be known that she considered …
Defending America By Aiding The Allies: The British Student Pilots At Arcadia And Clewiston, 1941-1945, Thomas D. Greenshaw
Defending America By Aiding The Allies: The British Student Pilots At Arcadia And Clewiston, 1941-1945, Thomas D. Greenshaw
Florida Historical Quarterly
Monday morning, June 8, 1941, 99 British citizens arrived at the Atlantic Coast Line depot in Arcadia, Florida. Although dressed in civilian clothes, all were members of the Royal Air Force destined for training as pilots in the United States before returning to defend king and country in the raging European war. It was a delicate situation. The United States was trying to aid Britain and her allies while maintaining its official neutrality.
Letters From Pensacola About Confederate Nitre Bureau Operations In Florida, Thomas S. Muir
Letters From Pensacola About Confederate Nitre Bureau Operations In Florida, Thomas S. Muir
Florida Historical Quarterly
The following letters dealing with the Confederate Nitre Bureau’s Florida operations were discovered in the T. T. Wentworth, Jr. Collection of the Historic Pensacola Preservation Board. Both letters deal with the subject of the foregoing article by Marion O. Smith. The second casts light on the Civil War activities of two prominent Pensacola citizens. Cox Chandler Yonge was a district attorney in Florida for the Confederate States of America. Augustus E. Maxwell, who had once represented Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives, was a Confederate Senator.
Confederate Nitre Bureau Operations In Florida, Marion O. Smith
Confederate Nitre Bureau Operations In Florida, Marion O. Smith
Florida Historical Quarterly
Saltpeter or niter (potassium nitrate), the main ingredient of gunpowder, was essential for the Confederate war effort. To ensure a steady supply, in April 1862 the Confederate Congress passed a bill which created the Nitre Bureau. Its goals were to encourage a more “efficient working of the niter caves” already being mined, to solicit additional contracts for new cave operators or persons leaching earth deposits from underneath buildings, and to establish in the larger towns artificial niter beds. The new bureau was headed by Isaac M. St. John, a former civil engineer, and the South was soon divided into districts, …
Claude Pepper And The Seeds Of His 1950 Defeat, 1944-1948, James C. Clark
Claude Pepper And The Seeds Of His 1950 Defeat, 1944-1948, James C. Clark
Florida Historical Quarterly
Claude Pepper’s defeat in the 1950 Florida Democratic Senatorial primary has long been seen as the result of a vicious campaign in which his opponents used underhanded methods to win. But while the 1950 campaign between Pepper and George Smathers was one of the nastiest in Florida history, the roots of Pepper’s loss can be traced to 1945, when he began to feud with President Harry Truman and began courting the political left. Those two activities so badly damaged his standing in Florida that he lost the large following which had sent him to the U.S. Senate in three previous …
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE FLORIDA NEGRO: A FEDERAL WRITERS’ PROJECT LEGACY, edited by Gary W. McDonogh, reviewed by Robert L. Hall; CITY ON THE EDGE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MIAMI, by Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick; THE EXILE: CUBA IN THE HEART OF MIAMI, by David Rieff, reviewed by Paul S. George; UNCOMMON GROUND: ARCHAEOLOGY AND EARLY AFRICAN AMERICA, 1650-1800, by Leland Ferguson, reviewed by Jane Landers; EARLY POTTERY IN THE SOUTHEAST: TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN COOKING TECHNOLOGY, by Kenneth E. Sassaman, reviewed by Ann S. Cordell; HISPANIC PRESENCE IN THE UNITED STATES: HISTORICAL BEGINNINGS, edited by Frank de Varona, reviewed by Light Townsend …
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Proceedings of the Ninety-second Meeting of the Florida Historical Society and the Florida Historical Confederation Workshop 1994
Ringing Up A School: Mary Mcleod Bethune's Impact On Daytona, Audrey Thomas Mccluskey
Ringing Up A School: Mary Mcleod Bethune's Impact On Daytona, Audrey Thomas Mccluskey
Florida Historical Quarterly
The limited scholarly attention given to Mary McLeod Bethune has focused either on her pioneering efforts to integrate the federal bureaucracy during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt or on her equally trailblazing work in the black women’s club movement.1 To be sure, historians have recognized Bethune as one of this country’s most important educators, but this critical aspect of her career remains imperfectly understood. This is especially true of the school that she founded for women in 1904, which became the coeducational liberal arts institution Bethune-Cookman College.