World's Finest Beach

A Brief History of the Jacksonville Beaches

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Donald J. Mabry ISBN: 9781614231783
Publisher: The History Press Publication: November 30, 2011
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Donald J. Mabry
ISBN: 9781614231783
Publisher: The History Press
Publication: November 30, 2011
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English
Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct of one of the largest naval bases in the United States and how a former mine called Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. Noted historian Don Mabry traces the fascinating history of what he still considers home from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first in this warm account of the “World’s Finest Beach.”
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Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct of one of the largest naval bases in the United States and how a former mine called Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. Noted historian Don Mabry traces the fascinating history of what he still considers home from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first in this warm account of the “World’s Finest Beach.”

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