Cynthia Cheatwood

Orange Park (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Orange Park, Florida, once known as Laurel Grove Plantation, was incorporated in 1879. Luring people with its healthy climate, therapeutic spring, and charming views of the St. Johns River, the town has played host to the rich and famous as well as the poor and humble. In early days, steamboats carried the likes of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Pres. Ulysses S. Grant, William Astor, and B.J. Johnson to the grand Hotel Marion for recreational or health benefits. Later, one of Florida's first integrated schools thrived just yards away. Important scientific studies were conducted at the town's "Monkey Farm" for 35 years. Orange Park, far more than a bedroom community for Jacksonville, has all the charm of small-town America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439670750
• Artikelnr.: 60308871

Autorenporträt

This book, endorsed by the Historical Society of Orange Park, presents the town's history through images of its past. Using historical society records, decades of local newspaper columns, and published and unpublished histories of Clay County, Florida, local historian Cynthia Cheatwood has assembled a rich view of Orange Park's story. Many of this book's images, gathered from university archives, Clay County Historical Archives, the State Archives of Florida, and local collections, have seldom been shared.