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.

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.

A businessman from Jacksonville, North Carolina, Grady served twelve two-year terms, the last one of which was the 2009-2010 session.

* Hurricane Dora, 1964 hurricane which was the first and last to hit Jacksonville, Florida

On December 30, in the last game of the 2007 regular season against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Davis scored two consecutive touchdowns on kickoff returns, the first for 97 yards and the second for 104.

The show, which aired on only seven stations ( in Seattle, Washington ; Columbus, Ohio ; Dallas, Texas ; Houston, Texas ; Buffalo, New York ; Jacksonville, Florida ; and Tampa, Florida ) on a limited run, did not last a full season.

On the last page, with the President in a temporary HQ in Jacksonville, Florida appoints Jimmy Christopher in charge of all maneuvers against the Purple Army.

Reginald Williams, Jr. ( born May 17, 1983 ) is an American football wide receiver who last played for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League ( NFL ).

The now famous U. S. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, who had called NAS Jacksonville home but later moved to NAS Corpus Christi in the late 1940s, performed a last air show at the station on April 29, 1950, before forming the nucleus of an operational fighter squadron, VF-191 ( Satan ’ s Kittens ), which was assigned to combat in Korea.

A piece of history and Navy and Marine Corps tradition was lost in 1986 when the last unit of Marines left NAS Jacksonville.

The last remaining portion of old SH 40, Jacksonville to Port Arthur, became part of US 69 in 1935.

The Colts controlled their own destiny, with Jacksonville losing its last three games of the season.

In other games, Shreveport defeating visiting San Antonio 41-31, Portland won at home against Jacksonville 30-13, and, in the last WFL game ever played, the Southern California Sun beat The Hawaiians, 26-7, in Honolulu.

Also included is a version of " Honky Tonk Night Time Man ," with Ronnie's alternate autobiographical vocal take, entitled " Jacksonville Kid ," which is believed to be the last vocal take he ever recorded in a studio.

Jacksonville most recently wore white in their 2011 regular season game against the Cincinnati Bengals, and for the 2011 regular season home opener wore all white against the Tennessee Titans.

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 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.

However, the development of suburbs and a subsequent wave of middle class " white flight " left Jacksonville with a much poorer population than before.

Brown faced several candidates in the 1992 Democratic primary, but the strongest opponent to emerge was Andy Johnson, a white talk radio host from Jacksonville.

He was the first white officer to be given command of an all black unit in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where the men were living in tents.

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.

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 club plays all of their home games at EverBank Field, located near the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville.

To address this issue, in 2010 the team and the City of Jacksonville undertook several measures aimed at ensuring the franchise's continued viability in Jacksonville.

Heading into December, Jacksonville was at the top of the AFC South and in playoff contention.

The day after the NFL awarded the expansion team to Jacksonville, a triumphant Wayne Weaver held up the Jaguars ' proposed silver helmet and teal jersey at the NFL owners ' meeting in Chicago.

In addition of performing at games and pep rallies, members function as goodwill ambassadors of the team, participating in corporate, community and charitable events in the Jacksonville metropolitan area where they sign autographs and pose for pictures.

The second was on September 26, 2010, in a 28 – 3 win at the Jacksonville Jaguars.

Jacksonville had no NFL team at the time, the Jacksonville Jaguars would not start play until 1995.

A bad snap allowed Patriots defensive back Larry Whigham to tackle Jaguars punter Bryan Barker at the Jacksonville 4-yard line, setting up Martin's 1-yard touchdown run a few plays later.

Jacksonville led 14 – 10 at halftime, but the Titans then scored 23 unanswered points on 2 touchdown runs by McNair, a safety, and Derrick Mason's 80-yard kickoff return for a touchdown.

He was stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, serving as safety officer and quality control officer for Heavy Photographic Squadron 62 ( VAP-62 ) flying the A3D-2P ( later RA-3B ) Skywarrior.

At the 1952 Jacksonville Open, Snead forfeited rather than play a 18-hole playoff against Doug Ford after the two golfers finished in a tie at the end of regulation play.

* 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

On 20 April 1564, it became the port of departure for the French expedition of René Goulaine de Laudonnière to the New World where he created the first French colony at Fort Caroline near present-day Jacksonville, Florida.

One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville ; this may be the earliest recorded name for that area.

On May 3, 1901, downtown Jacksonville was ravaged by a fire that started at a fiber factory.

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

The coldest temperature recorded at Jacksonville International Airport was on January 21, 1985, a day that still holds the record cold for many locations in the eastern half of the US.

Occurring in the morning, it also marked the first time since 1989 that the official National Weather Service recording equipment at Jacksonville International picked up frozen precipitation.

He was assigned to Fighter Squadron 42 ( VF-42 ) based at Norfolk, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida, and served several tours aboard aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea with the squadron.