TWO BIRDS-EYE VIEWS

(Source of top image: Florida State Archives; bottom photo: Florida Collection, Main Public

Library, Jacksonville)

BEFORE & AFTER SHOTS -- Here are a couple of interesting images of Black Point, a riverfront spot on the St. Johns.  Probably dating from about 1930, the top photo looks to the east.  It shows Camp Foster, a National Guard base that became a residential facility for homeless men during the Great Depression.  Foster was located on the site of Camp Johnston, a World War I training site for quartermasters.  The bottom photo looks to the west.  Dating from the period 1960 to 1967, it depicts Naval Air Station Jacksonville.  Runways now cover much of the former sites of Camp Johnston & Camp Foster.

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