Walkable Jacksonville: Moncrief

[thelakelander]

Jacksonville's urban core is home to a number of historic pedestrian scale neighborhoods. Many are a direct result of the city's former electric streetcar network that operated between 1880 and 1936. Today, The Jaxson highlights an area known as the District of Soul: Moncrief

Read More: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/walkable-jacksonville-moncrief/

[Adam White]

Great article, Ennis. Very interesting. I went to sixth grade (Susie Tolbert) and junior/senior high school (Stanton) near Moncrief road. It's nice to learn a bit about the neighborhood. Back when I was in school, information was in short supply.

[fieldafm]

Great article, Ennis. Very interesting. I went to sixth grade (Susie Tolbert) and junior/senior high school (Stanton) near Moncrief road. It's nice to learn a bit about the neighborhood. Back when I was in school, information was in short supply.

Went to sixth grade at Bethune, and had no idea who Mary McLeod Bethune was until I got into college and we played a game against Bethune Cookman... and I looked up the name Bethune Cookman.

I legit thought that Bethune was like a retired librarian for the public school system.

[Adam White]

Great article, Ennis. Very interesting. I went to sixth grade (Susie Tolbert) and junior/senior high school (Stanton) near Moncrief road. It's nice to learn a bit about the neighborhood. Back when I was in school, information was in short supply.

Went to sixth grade at Bethune, and had no idea who Mary McLeod Bethune was until I got into college and we played a game against Bethune Cookman... and I looked up the name Bethune Cookman.

I legit thought that Bethune was like a retired librarian for the public school system.

That's so Jax, isn't it? They didn't teach me anything. I was lucky to get a *bit* about the history of Stanton at Stanton. But the school pretty much ignored it - especially the history of the school once it moved to W 13th street.

These articles are so fascinating because they shed light on parts of the city that have pretty much been ignored for so long.

[JaGoaT]

Ok I’ll say it.....

Walkable???

[thelakelander]

Yes, it is a walkable neighborhood, in that it is pedestrian oriented, denser in population than most Jax neighborhoods and filled with a mix of uses within walkable distance from its residences. Just because it isn't tourist friendly or may not make people, who are unfamiliar with the neighborhood, comfortable does not make it unwalkable.