The history of the city

The area of ​​Jacksonville was settled 6.000 years ago by the Timucua. The largest terrain in the area was Ossachite and was in the center  of the present city of Jacksonville today. The first permanent settlement in modern times was the "Cow Ford" who was established in the year 1791. After Florida became the title U.S. territory in the year 1821 the city took its present name. This was for the Governor and later President Andrew Jackson to his honor.

Jacksonville was a important place of the Civil War. Here though no battle was fought but the city was damaged much.

After that the area was a popular winter quarters of the rich and famous. The city was visited in 1886 and 1888 of yellow fever epidemics.

On 3 May 1901 the city was badly damaged by a major fire that broke out in a mattress factory. During the lunch time filler had ignited. In faith with a few buckets of water could be the source of the fire extinguish quickly at first no fire alarm was triggered. The flames spread but from faster than expected. Over the next eight hours they was 2.368 houses destroyed and more than 10.000 people homeless. The disaster is one of the worst in Florida's history.

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