904 Day: Facts about Jacksonville you might not know

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Sept. 4 successful Jacksonville is known arsenic 904 Day, a time named aft our country codification (904, of course) that truly makes you privation to shriek “DUUUVAL!”

Area codification 904 is the telephone country codification successful usage for astir of the First Coast (northeast) portion of the authorities of Florida, including each of the metropolitan country of Jacksonville. It includes each of Duval County, St. Johns County, Nassau County, and Baker County, and astir each of Clay County.

To celebrate, I thought we would database a fewer amusive facts that person truly enactment america connected the map.

Friendship Fountain: When it opened successful the 1960s; the Friendship Fountain was the world’s largest and tallest fountain erstwhile it opened! For decades, Friendship Fountain has been an iconic spot successful Jacksonville. It’s a metropolis landmark connected Jacksonville’s Southbank.

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Jacksonville is the birthplace of Southern stone radical Lynyrd Skynyrd. News4Jax has profiled the radical extensively, including producing an hour-long special, “The Legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd.”

Naval Station Mayport: Mayport is among the largest U.S. Naval ports successful the country. The presumption was commissioned successful December 1942.

Great Fire of 1901: Much of Jacksonville’s municipality halfway was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1901. In 1901, the occurrence dispersed crossed downtown and burned 2,368 buildings and 466 acres. It was the largest metropolitan occurrence successful the South. It near much than 8,600 radical homeless. Three years later, the country was rebuilt. The fig of caller structures surpassed the fig of buildings lost. (Read much astir the “Great Fire” here)

Snow successful Jacksonville? Get retired of town! It feels arsenic if it volition ne'er snowfall successful Duval County again, but it happened... and we person pictures to beryllium it. On Dec. 23, 1989, those who lived present sledded down the Dames Point Bridge, had snowball fights and adjacent made snowmen. It hasn’t snowed successful much than 30 years. (GALLERY: Locals stock snowfall photos 30+ years aft a achromatic Christmas successful Jacksonville)

Andrew Jackson: Jacksonville was named for General Andrew Jackson, the archetypal subject politician of Florida who, incidentally, ne'er visited Jacksonville.

Duval Street: The street, similar the county, was named for William Pope Duval, the archetypal Territorial Governor of Florida.

Jacksonville’s oldest resident: Planted successful 1822 (or truthful the communicative says), Treaty Oak, located connected the Southbank of Downtown has a circumference of 25 feet and reaches much than 70 feet into the sky. This is Jacksonville’s oldest resident.

If you person made it to the extremity of this article, I volition fto you successful connected a small secret... TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!🎂 I get to observe the metropolis and my birth. Pretty cool, right? I privation to judge that Jacksonville conscionable wouldn’t beryllium the aforesaid without me. *wink* The different amusive fact? I stock my day with Beyonce. She turns 40 today!

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