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Julington Creek
Julington Creek is a stream in Duval County, Florida, near Jacksonville. Durbin Creek is a tributary. Julington Creek feeds into the St Johns River widening out into Old Bull Bay. Both are navigable by paddlecraft and has a marina on it. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about her visits to the creek while she was living in Mandarin, Florida, in ''Palmetto Leaves ''Palmetto Leaves'' is a memoir and travel guide written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, published in 1873. Already famous for having written ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), Stowe came to Florida after ...'' (1873). History An account of Florida from 1837 describes settlements in an area of the creek. There was a ferry across the creek. Developments The Bartram Canoe Trail runs from Durbin Creek to Julington Creek. State Road 13 has a bridge over the creek. There is a Julington Durbin Creek Preserve. There is also a Julington Creek Elementary School and the community of Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duval County, Florida
Duval County is in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 995,567, up from 864,263 in 2010. Its county seat is Jacksonville, Florida, with which the Duval County government has been consolidated since 1968. Duval County was established in 1822, and is named for William Pope Duval, Governor of Florida Territory from 1822 to 1834. Duval County is the central county of the Jacksonville Metropolitan Statistical Area. History This area had been settled by varying cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years before European contact. Within the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, archeologists have excavated remains of some of the oldest pottery in the United States, dating to 2500 BCE. Prior to European contact, the area was inhabited by the Mocama, a Timucuan-speaking group who lived throughout the coastal areas of northern Florida. At the time Europeans arrived, much of what is now Duval Count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Durbin Creek
Durbin may refer to: People *Durbin (surname), people with the surname ;First name * Durbin Feeling (1946-2020), American Cherokee linguist * Durbin Feltman (born 1997), American baseball player * Durbin Ward (1819–1886), American lawyer, politician, newspaper publisher, and Civil War soldier Places ;United States * Durbin, Indiana, unincorporated community * Durbin, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Durbin, North Dakota, an unincorporated community * Durbin, Ohio, an unincorporated community *Durbin, West Virginia, a town Mathematics / Statistics * Durbin test, a nonparametric test for balanced incomplete designs * Durbin–Watson statistic, a test statistic * Durbin–Wu–Hausman test, a statistical hypothesis test in econometrics Other * Durbin amendment, a provision of United States federal law that limits fees charged to retailers for debit card processing * Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad, an American heritage and freight railroad in Virginia and West Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Johns River
The St. Johns River ( es, Río San Juan) is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and its most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At long, it flows north and winds through or borders twelve counties. The drop in elevation from headwaters to mouth is less than ; like most Florida waterways, the St. Johns has a very slow flow speed of , and is often described as "lazy".Whitney, p. 215. Numerous lakes are formed by the river or flow into it, but as a river its widest point is nearly across. The narrowest point is in the headwaters, an unnavigable marsh in Indian River County, FL, Indian River County. The St. Johns drainage basin of includes some of Florida's major wetlands.The St. Johns River: Nominated as an American Heritage River , Environmental Protection Agency. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (; June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and became best known for her novel ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day. Life and work Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on June 14, 1811.McFarland, Philip. ''Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe''. New York: Grove Press, 2007: 112. She was the sixth of 11 children born to outspoken Calvinist preache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin, Florida
Mandarin is a neighborhood located in the southernmost portion of Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida, United States. It is located on the eastern banks of the St. Johns River, across from Orange Park. It's a short drive south of Jacksonville's city center, and is bordered by Beauclerc to the north, Julington Creek to the south and St. John's River to the west. Once called "a tropical paradise" by author and notable resident Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mandarin is known for its history, ancient oak trees draped with Spanish moss, parks, marinas and water views. History The area was established by the British in the 1760s, including the 10,000 acre plantation created by Francis Levett Sr. The Levetts cultivated a variety of crops and used enslaved people for this operation. The Treaty of Paris returned the area to Spain in 1783. Many other plantations were established under the Spanish, including the notable Kingsley Plantation. In 1830, Mandarin was named after the mandarin oran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmetto Leaves
''Palmetto Leaves'' is a memoir and travel guide written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, published in 1873. Already famous for having written ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (1852), Stowe came to Florida after the U.S. Civil War (1861–1865). She purchased a plantation near Jacksonville as a place for her son to recover from the injuries he had received as a Union soldier and to make a new start in life. After visiting him, she became so enamored with the region she purchased a cottage and orange grove for herself and wintered there until 1884, even though the plantation failed within its first year. Parts of ''Palmetto Leaves'' appeared in a newspaper published by Stowe's brother, as a series of letters and essays about life in northeast Florida. Scion of New England clergy, Stowe keenly felt a sense of Christian responsibility that was expressed in her letters. She considered it her duty to help improve the lives of newly emancipated blacks a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julington Creek Plantation
Julington Creek Plantation is an unincorporated community in the larger community of St. Johns, St. Johns County, Florida, United States. It consists of several large neighborhoods, and is located along Race Track Road east of State Road 13, across from Fruit Cove (which is also the name of a census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ... that includes Julington Creek Plantation). Julington Creek Plantation Community Development District encompasses approximately 4,120 acres and is located in northwest St. John’s County, approximately twenty miles south of downtown Jacksonville, seven miles south of Interstate 295, and fifteen miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. The community is halfway between the historic city of Saint Augustine and the excitement of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Florida
This is a list of streams and rivers in the U.S. state of Florida. With one exception, the streams and rivers of Florida all originate on the Coastal plain. That exception is the Apalachicola River, which is formed by the merger of the Chattahoochee River, which originates in the Appalachian Mountains, and the Flint River, which originates in the Piedmont. Most streams and rivers in Florida start from swamps, while some originate from springs or lakes. Many of the streams and rivers are underground for part of their courses. The Everglades, sometimes called the "river of grass", is a very wide and shallow river that originates from Lake Okeechobee. Most of Florida's streams and rivers drain into the Gulf of Mexico. Drainage on the east coast of Florida is dominated by the St. Johns River, which, with the swamps that form its headwaters, extends parallel to the coast from inland of Fort Pierce to Jacksonville. By drainage basin Atlantic coast Rivers are listed as they enter the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
