When long term Downtown master plans continue to be rewritten with each mayoral administration, it's hard to achieve anything at all. The Skyway may be the most visible example of changed priorities, incomplete vision, and poor execution.

Originally an office building and Ivey's Department Store, Downtown's JEA office tower was also once topped by a revolving restaurant.

For nearly a century, Downtown served as Jacksonville's premier retail destination.  Is it too late to reach back into the past and capture the magic?

Evergreen Cemetery is the oldest fully operating cemetery in Jacksonville, with the first burial occurring in 1881. The Evergreen Cemetery Association was organized in 1910 as a non-profit corporation by a number of people who had family or friends buried there.

 When complete, this mall will "employ the newest concepts in suburban shopping facilities.  It's going to be something very unique, architecturally."

Atlantic Coast Line Steam Locomotive #1504 sits quietly behind the original Jacksonville Union Terminal, now the Prime Osborne Convention Center, in Downtown Jacksonville.

Situated just south of Craig Creek in San Marco, Oriental Gardens charmed Jacksonville visitors for nearly two decades.

A story of blood and diamonds... Rolling back the clock to 1770's, one of the more colorful and credible tales of Jacksonville's past leaps from the pages of history. To the north of Florida, the birthing enterprise of a new nation was sealed in blood, no small part of which was French. King Louie XVI of France, wasn't exactly royal material.

A collection of aerial photographs of Jacksonville from six decades ago.

The rain waters of Tropical Storm Fay reveal a little history under Oak Street.