`` The established pattern of relative calm in the field of race relations has continued in all areas '', reported this group headed by Harold Colee of Jacksonville and including two South Floridians, William D. Singer and John B. Turner of Miami.

Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

But the team lost its next two games, and suffered embarrassing losses to the Houston Texans over the course of the season ( Jacksonville has struggled against the Texans since Houston entered the league in 2002 ).

Contributing to this decline in ticket sales is the fact that Jacksonville is one of the league's smallest markets, though its stadium is relatively large ; since 2005 the team has covered nearly 10, 000 of the stadium's 73, 000 total seats with tarp in order to lower the stadium's official capacity to a more typical size and reduce blackouts.

EverBank Field ( formerly known as Jacksonville Municipal Stadium and Alltel Stadium ) is located on the north bank of the St. Johns River, and has been the home of the Jaguars since the team's first season in 1995.

The name has been adopted by sports franchises, including the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and the Mexican football club Jaguares de Chiapas.

The blue jersey and white pants combo has been worn for only one regular season game, the 2005 season opener at the Jacksonville Jaguars, while the white jersey and blue pants combination has not been worn regularly since late in the 2002 season, with the exception of late in the 2009 season.

The area of the modern city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years.

One converted movie studio site, Norman Studios, remains in Arlington ; It has been converted to the Jacksonville Silent Film Museum at Norman Studios.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, making Jacksonville the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States ; of this, 86. 66 % () is land and ; 13. 34 % () is water.

Hurricane Dora as seen on Daytona Beach WSR-57 radar in September 1964. Jacksonville has suffered less damage from hurricanes than most other east coast cities, although the threat does exist for a direct hit by a major hurricane.

The city has only received one direct hit from a hurricane since 1871, although Jacksonville has experienced hurricane or near-hurricane conditions more than a dozen times due to storms passing through the state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, or passing to the north or south in the Atlantic and brushing past the area.

Downtown Jacksonville has a skyline with the tallest building being the Bank of America Tower, constructed in 1990 as the Barnett Center.

Its county seat is Jacksonville, with which the Duval County government has been consolidated since 1968.

It has experienced explosive growth in the last ten years as a flood of people working in Jacksonville built new homes across the county line.

He has had NFL experience with the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars.

In addition, mirroring Jacksonville, the town has one of the highest percentage of Filipino American in the state of Florida.

Jacksonville Beach has a humid subtropical climate.

Since the 1968 consolidation between Duval County and the City of Jacksonville, Jacksonville Beach has been a separate municipality within the consolidated city of Jacksonville.

For most of their short history, the Jaguars did what many other NFL teams located in subtropical climates traditionally practice: wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the sweltering autumns in Jacksonville.

The couple spent the first half of 1859 in Florida, where Fitz Hugh wrote a series of articles, “ Due South Sketches ,” describing what he later recalled as “ the climate of Utopia, the scenery of Paradise, and the social system of Hell .” He noted that while apologists for slavery condemned abolitionists for condoning miscegenation, “ he most open relations of concubinage existed between white chevaliers and black servants in the town of Jacksonville.

The inaugural season featured many of the players who would lead Jacksonville into the playoffs in the team's next four seasons, including quarterback Mark Brunell ( acquired in a draft day trade from Green Bay ), offensive lineman Tony Boselli ( drafted with the 2nd pick overall in the 1995 NFL Draft ) running back James Stewart ( also drafted in 1995 ), and wide receiver Jimmy Smith ( signed as a free agent ).

The Titans finished the regular season with a 13 – 3 record ( including a home win over the Rams ), but finished second behind the 14 – 2 Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC Central.

Ponzi was released on bail as he appealed the state conviction, and fled to the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida and launched the Charpon Land Syndicate (" Charpon " is an amalgam of his name ), offering investors in September 1925 tiny tracts of land, some under water, and promising 200 % returns in 60 days.

* 1946 ( 6 ) Jacksonville Open, Greater Greensboro Open, The Open Championship ( not counted as a PGA Tour win at the time, but designated as such in 2002 ), World Championship of Golf, Miami Open, Virginia Open

Iowa, Milwaukee, Tennessee Valley ( which changed its name to Alabama to reflect the state, rather than the region ), Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Bossier-Shreveport, and Spokane all seamlessly moved to the new AFL to join " old " AFL teams Arizona, Orlando, Tampa Bay, Chicago, and Cleveland, along with expansion teams in Dallas and Jacksonville, and the AIFA team in Utah which had originally been in the old AFL.

Other notable structures include the 37-story Wells Fargo Center ( with its distinctive flared base making it the defining building in the Jacksonville skyline ), originally built in 1972-74 by the Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company, and the 28 floor Riverplace Tower which, when completed in 1967, was the tallest precast, post-tensioned concrete structure in the world.

* " Jacksonville " ( Fringe ), an episode of the television series Fringe

* Eugene Monroe ( born 1987 ), professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

* Montell Owens ( born 1984 ), professional football player for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Notable local announcers include John Sterling ( New York Stars / Charlotte Hornets television ), Spencer Ross ( New York Stars radio ), Bob Sheppard ( New York Stars PA ), Mike Patrick ( Jacksonville Sharks ), Larry King ( Shreveport Steamer ), Larry Matson ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ), Fred Sington ( Birmingham Americans / Birmingham Vulcans ) and Eddie Doucette and Vince Lloyd ( Chicago Fire radio and TV respectively ).

Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the Gulf South Conference was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State ( now North Alabama ), Jacksonville State, Livingston ( now West Alabama ), Tennessee – Martin and Troy State ( now Troy ).

* Five Points ( Jacksonville ), Florida

The Fest typically occurs during the last weekend in October, coinciding with the annual Florida-Georgia football game ( played in Jacksonville, FL ), in order to minimize tensions between the largely out of town music festival goers with the University of Florida students and alumni.

Wheeler had a home at what is now One Ocean hotel ( now in Atlantic Beach ), and had to walk all the way home from Mayport each evening after taking the Florida East Coast Railway train home from work in Jacksonville.

Yulee has both a middle school and high school, along with the Betty Cook Center, established and run by Florida State College at Jacksonville ( formerly Florida Community College at Jacksonville ), which offers classes for a variety of post-secondary degrees.

Woodson is located at ( 39. 628035 ,-90. 221761 ), south of Lake Jacksonville and south of combined US Route 36 and Interstate 72.

Pop singer Pat Boone appeared on one episode as himself, with the premise that he hailed from the same area of the country as the Clampetts, though Boone is a native of Jacksonville, Florida.

Campbell currently lives in Jacksonville, Oregon, with his second wife, costume designer Ida Gearon, whom he met on the set of the movie Mindwarp.

On 15 June Voris led a trio of Grumman F6F-5 Hellcats, specially modified to reduce weight and painted sea blue with gold leaf trim, through their inaugural 15-minute-long performance at their Florida home base, Naval Air Station Jacksonville.

The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion teams in 1995.

In 2003, the Texans introduced an alternative red jersey ( most of the time worn in divisional games against the Jacksonville Jaguars ) with blue trim.

The guests in attendance included Aaron's first manager with the Braves, Charlie Grimm, his teammate from Jacksonville, Felix Mantilla, Eau Claire president Ron Berganson, and Del Crandall, the catcher for the 1957 world champion Braves and the-then manager of the Brewers.

announced its bid for a team, and Jacksonville was ultimately chosen as one of five finalists, along with Charlotte, St. Louis, Baltimore and Memphis.

The Jacksonville metropolitan area and television market were smaller than nearly every other city with a team.

The new stadium ( renamed Jacksonville Municipal Stadium ) opened on August 18, 1995 with a preseason game against the St. Louis Rams.

Along with the Carolina Panthers, the Jacksonville Jaguars entered the NFL as the first expansion teams in almost 20 years.

Taylor, who is considered to be one of the greatest Jaguars in the history of the franchise, rushed for over 10, 000 yards during his tenure with Jacksonville and earned one trip to the Pro Bowl.

Gilbride, whose coaching background with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Oilers featured a more open passing attack would mark a major change in offensive style from the ball control ground game of Ross.

In 1995, the Steelers overcame a 3 – 4 start ( including a 20 – 16 upset loss to the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars ) to win 8 of their final 9 games and finished with an 11 – 5 record, the second best in the AFC.

McCloskey soon entered a financial dispute with the NFL, so the league found a replacement in Hugh Culverhouse, a wealthy tax attorney from Jacksonville.

She later worked alongside Colonel James Montgomery, and provided him with key intelligence that aided the capture of Jacksonville, Florida.

As he waited in Jacksonville, Florida for passage to Cuba, he met Cora Taylor, the madam of a brothel, with whom he would have a lasting relationship.

Consolidation gave Jacksonville its great size and placed most of its metropolitan population within the city limits ; with a population of 821, 784, it is the most populous city proper in Florida and the Southeast, and the eleventh most populous in the United States.

Jacksonville is the principal city in the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Area, with a population of 1, 345, 596 in 2010.

As with much of Florida, tourism is also important to the Jacksonville area, particularly tourism related to golf.