Downtown Jacksonville as seen from Dixieland Park in South Jacksonville, ca. 1910.
Click on image for larger image (311 KB).

There are many great sources for researching Jacksonville's history on the Web. Here are some favorites:

Florida History Online -- a wonderful digital archive of textual and  visual
                                         documents of Florida history  produced by
                                                  Dr. Daniel Schafer and UNF students
Online Biographies of many prominent Jacksonville citizens 
American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-194
                (type "Jacksonville" in the search line)

Historic Books On-Line - Search Jacksonville
Nearly 1600 Photos of Jacksonville from the Florida State Archives Photographic Collection - The Spottswood Collection  (type "Jacksonville" in the search line)

Click here to visit Glenn Emery's website
         "The Jacksonville Story"
featuring many resources for Jacksonville History
   
 

Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
Historic Springfield
Riverside Avondale Preservation
Beaches Area Historical Society
Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission

Jacksonville Postcard Collection now online!

The Florida Collection at the Jacksonville Public Library has now  placed its extensive collection of historic Jacksonville postcards on the Internet for all to enjoy.  Click on the postcard  image above to browse this fascinating collection of images of northeast Florida!


Panoramic Maps in the Library of Congress:
                         Jacksonville - 1876
                         Jacksonville - 1893
Panoramic Photos of Jacksonville in the Library of Congress
Jacksonville's Architectural Heritage: About The Book
Real Estate Property Information in Jacksonville
Genealogy Research - Family History Center of Latter-day Saints
Florida Genealogical and Historical Resources
St. Augustine Historical Society
Jacksonville: The Silent Movie Capital
Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve
Kingsley Plantation               also: Anna Kingsley
The Florida Theatre
The St. James Building
                  Also, a spectacular panoramic photo, 1913 (311 KB)
Restoration of the Klutho Apartments
Jacksonville in Flames - Photos from the Great Fire
"Treaty Oak"
Friendship Fountain
Downtown Walking Tour
Jacksonville Skyscrapers    more
1839 Map of Florida during the Seminole War
The Battle of Olustee
Mandarin Museum & Historical Society
NAS Jacksonville Historic photos (click on the "History" button at top)
Jacksonville Maritime Museum
Jacksonville Railroad History         and more
91 turn-of-the-century Jacksonville photos from the Library of Congress
                             (type "Jacksonville" on the search line)
The Maple Leaf  Civil War Shipwreck
Camp Blanding Museum & Memorial Park 
The Amazing Life and Times of Stetson Kennedy