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Eastside deserves national historic designation
« on: October 03, 2022, 08:05:26 AM »
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Located just east of Springfield and Downtown, the Historic Eastside neighborhood is one of the most intact nineteenth-century African American neighborhoods in Jacksonville, and it still upholds its history as a Black working-class neighborhood today. In support of the effort to designate the Eastside as a national historic district, here's a look and stories and spaces from the neighborhood that deserve to be better known.


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Re: Eastside deserves national historic designation
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2022, 01:52:17 AM »
No doubt this will be approved, in large part thanks to your work.

The next HPC meeting where this will be considered is October 26th, 3pm.

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Re: Eastside deserves national historic designation
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2022, 04:09:05 PM »
JHPC supported this today.
« Last Edit: October 26, 2022, 07:25:59 PM by fsu813 »

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Re: Eastside deserves national historic designation
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2022, 04:44:10 PM »
No doubt this will be approved, in large part thanks to your work.

The next HPC meeting where this will be considered is October 26th, 3pm.

Thanks! It's been a long time coming. Hopefully, the zoning overlay coming behind it will be a success as well.
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Re: Eastside deserves national historic designation
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2022, 07:15:37 AM »
Awesome News!