Category: JHS events
-
Why the Jacksonville History Center?
Florida’s largest city, at 201 years old, lacks a public history center. All of Jacksonville’s peer cities do far more with representing their local past than we do in Jacksonville, even though Jacksonville has more (and more interesting) history than any of them. Trying to explain why that is so makes for lively conversations that…
-
Jacksonville’s Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.
Under construction, April 22, 1924, the Ford Motor Assembly Plant in Jacksonville, Florida. Ninety-nine years later, approved for demolition. Learn the story.
-
Acosta Bridge Centennial Celebration
Take a step back in time on Saturday, June 26, as 1920s era vintage automobiles traverse the Acosta Bridge in celebration of its centennial.
-
Women’s History Month speaker is a real champion for women
We’re celebrating Women’s History Month with a contemporary subject for our March Speaker Series program. Read more, sign up!
-
Scrub-Palmetto and Orange: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Florida
Join us on Wednesday, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. for a virtual presentation by award-winning author Dr. Michele Currie Navakas, on the topic of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life in Mandarin.
-
Virtually Speaking
What does it take to sustain a historic old church in downtown Jacksonville? Just what is Jacksonville’s Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge? These and other intriguing questions will be answered at the first of the Jacksonville Historical Society’s Speaker Series events.
-
Looking Ahead
The year 2020 has provided much fodder for historians. The JHS chooses now to look forward to new opportunities in 2021 to forward its mission of education and historic preservation. Join us!
-
Gingerbread Extravaganza 2020
The 18th Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza helped end 2020 on a high note at the Jacksonville Historical Society. Read more for details.
-
No Grinch here! Sign up to attend the 18th Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza!
The 18th Annual Gingerbread Extravaganza opened December 1 in Old St. Andrew’s Church at 317 A. Philip Randolph Blvd. For more details on the event, which includes an online silent auction, contests and a virtual tour of the exhibit, visit our Gingerbread page. Tickets can be purchased online to ensure social distancing can be maintained…
-
February 2022 Speaker Series on Jacksonville’s first Black lawyer
The Honorable Brian J. Davis, a United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, will share the history of Joseph E. Lee, the first African American to practice law in Jacksonville, having been admitted to the Florida Bar in 1873. Judge Davis was appointed by President Barack Obama…