Great Homes of Fernandina - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Homes of Fernandina write by Dickie Anderson. This book was released on 2015-03-01. Great Homes of Fernandina available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War
Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War write by Frank A. Ofeldt III. This book was released on 2020-08-10. Fort Clinch, Fernandina and the Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though Fernandina was tucked away in the far southern reaches of the Confederacy, Fort Clinch had been abandoned to Federal forces by March 1862. It proved a boon to the Union war effort, and the island became a haven for runaway slaves, with many joining the Federal army. The military occupation of this vital seaport helped end the war, and the Reconstruction period that followed bore witness to Union and Confederate veterans working together to bring Fernandina into a golden era of prosperity. Author and local historian Frank A. Ofeldt III captures the vital and under-told story of Amelia Island during the Civil War.
Legendary Locals of Amelia Island
Legendary Locals of Amelia Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legendary Locals of Amelia Island write by Rob Hicks. This book was released on 2017-06-05. Legendary Locals of Amelia Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amelia Island has been host to remarkable people throughout its 500-year history. These people are responsible for giving Amelia the distinction as the only place in the United States to have seen eight different flags. A new railroad followed the Civil War and brought those who sought to take advantage of the burgeoning shipping center. As opportunities waned, the island became a sleepy, blue collar community supported by the local paper mills. Prior to civil rights legislation desegregating the South, Fernandina's American Beach flourished as an African American coastal community. Meanwhile, local visionaries oversaw tight-knit communities and set the stage for the large resorts that came to the island's south end in the 1970s. Today, Amelia Island is a national tourist destination and home to a diverse of community of longtime residents and newcomers, both with remarkable talents and interesting stories to tell.
Amelia Island
Amelia Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amelia Island write by Rob Hicks. This book was released on 2007. Amelia Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tiny Amelia Island, in the northeast corner of Florida, was once among the most important ports in the western hemisphere. Before Florida was granted statehood, the island served as an international gateway between Spanish Florida and the English colonies that would later become the United States. Where Spanish monks and pirates once roamed, the island eventually developed into a significant seaport that exported the rich resources of Florida's interior in the late 1800s. This era was known as the Golden Age of Amelia Island and the town located on its north end, Fernandina. The railroad that connected Amelia Island to the Gulf Coast was largely responsible for the Golden Age, as it brought a burgeoning economy and many of the South's most prominent and wealthy figures. Today the island is best known as a resort community but retains the influence and charm of its remarkable past.
Highway A1A
Highway A1A - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Highway A1A write by Herbert L Hiller. This book was released on 2005-10-04. Highway A1A available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge is more than an insightful guide to the cities and towns along Florida's Atlantic coast. It is also the dramatic story of how tourism begat development, how development begat sprawl, and how this coastal corridor, almost out of the blue, created Florida's original year-round residential downtowns with the power to transform how Floridians live and how the world vacations in the Sunshine State. Highway A1A is anecdotal, authoritative, humorous, and wide-ranging. Passionately Floridian travel writer and tourism analyst Herbert Hiller offers a fuller and more balanced story about Florida's Atlantic coast than any other guidebook. Exploring towns from Callahan to Key West, Hiller covers Florida's 13 Atlantic counties, providing maps, historical and present-day photographs, and recommendations for places to visit, lodge, eat, and shop that are truly local in character. Whether you're a tourist or a roving Floridian looking for some diversion not far from home, Highway A1A will put you in touch with what makes the Atlantic coast special--its dynamic sites and sights.
