Jacksonville's Namesakes

[Metro Jacksonville]

Jacksonville's Namesakes



In this short article we'll learn a bit about the people behind the structures that were lovinginly named after them.

Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-oct-jacksonvilles-namesakes

[Noone]

Thanks again for the history.

Anybody want to donate a buck to 2009-442?  It's the artificial Reef TRUST fund. Seriously. I'll treat you to Chopstick Charley's and we can use Uber to get there.

How about the namesakes of the six artificial reefs south of the old Fuller Wareen bridge?

[acme54321]

Really?  What does that have to do with this article?

[coredumped]

Isaiah Harts Son, Ossian B Hart, became the 10th Governor of Florida and the first governor to be born in FL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian_B._Hart
Sometimes people get the 2 "Harts" confused and think the bridge was named after the governor and not the one in the article.

[JayBird]

The Isaiah David Hart Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. It carries U.S. Route 1 Alternate/Florida State Road 228. It is named after Isaiah Hart, the founder of Jacksonville. It was designed by Sverdrup & Parcel.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Bridge

[mtraininjax]

No reference to Napolean Bonaparte Broward?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_B._Broward

His Great Second Cousin is Architect Bob Broward who, planners take note, studied under Frank Lloyd Wright and was given apprenticeships to study in Taliesin East and West. He has a book on the Broward family that dates back to 1764. Bob is still alive with us here in Jacksonville.

For all those who don't know why its not called Dames Point Bridge, or Broward road for that matter.

[Overstreet]

...........who else thinks Lem Turner is kinda scary looking?

[I-10east]

^^^Yup, he definitely had that 'Undertaker' look going on.

[HisBuffPVB]

and it is Dame Point not Dames Point. Does anybody remember Fulton or Goat Island or Cosmo?

[JaxNative68]

Hart was a slave owner.  Do we need to change the name of the bridge?

[thelakelander]

No. A comment from the NBF thread:

^I don't think so. Haydon Burns was a racist too and Isiah Hart was a plantation owner with 48 slaves. No one is talking about renaming the Haydon Burns Library or Hart Bridge.

Let's not group "Nathan Bedford Forrest" into the general term of "Southern".  The controversy surrounding this has little to do with South vs North, West or East and more to do with the acts of the guy in question and reason why the place was named after him locally.

Forrest thread here: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,19931.msg351849.html#msg351849

[Demosthenes]

Isaiah Harts Son, Ossian B Hart, became the 10th Governor of Florida and the first governor to be born in FL:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian_B._Hart
Sometimes people get the 2 "Harts" confused and think the bridge was named after the governor and not the one in the article.

He also the namesake of Ocean Street downtown... true story.

Edit: Oh... Jaybird Scooped me :-D

[Demosthenes]

What about Alsott? Fuller Warren? Mathews?

[Coolyfett]

Man that dude Lem Turner had a serious beard. Im talking SERIOUS. Dude looks like he had a few dead bodies in his attic he would converse with when he came home from ferry work.....

[mtraininjax]

and it is Dame Point not Dames Point.

Yeah, right, and Riverside is on the WESTSIDE, good luck getting the local news media to change both.