Oceanway is a neighborhood of
Jacksonville,
Florida
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, located in the city's
Northside
Northside or North Side may refer to:
Music
* Northside (band), a musical group from Manchester, England
* NorthSide, an American record label
* NorthSide Festival (Denmark), a music festival in Aarhus, Denmark
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region.
Once dotted with small farms and isolated houses, Oceanway has grown dramatically since the early 1980s, adding numerous residential neighborhoods, the first high school in the area,
First Coast High School
First Coast High School is a comprehensive public high school in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. It was opened concurrently with its sister school, Mandarin High School. The school is one of 47 high schools in the Duval County School Dist ...
, and several other schools for lower grades. Also found near the Oceanway area is a large shopping center,
River City Marketplace.
In September 2017, during
Hurricane Irma, "unprecedented" flooding hit Oceanway, flooding every home in the neighborhood.
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References
See also
* Neighborhoods of Jacksonville
External links
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Populated places in Duval County, Florida
Former census-designated places in Florida
Northside, Jacksonville