World's Finest Beach: A Brief History of the Jacksonville Beaches

By Donald J. Mabry

Book Overview

Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct of one of the largest naval bases in the United States and how a former mine called Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. Noted historian Don Mabry traces the fascinating history of what he still considers home from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first in this warm account of the World's Finest Beach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596299673
• ISBN13: 9781596299672
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.9"