City profile: Jacksonville, FL
Fautor
utroque tuum laudabit pollice ludum
converso pollice vulgi
Quemlibet occidunt populariter.
-the
Romans
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Jacksonville
c. 1861, a minor Confederate port and orange-supply depot during
the War between the States, and now home to a football team with
a whiz-bang offense!
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Andy
Jackson (Old "Hickory") might well be horrified at the
city named to honour his slaghter of the Seminoles during his
memorable presidency in the early years of America's nationcy.
or he might be overjoyed. Certainly the city would have exceeded
his expectations as to size, as it the largest city in the continental
United States, challenged only if at all by LA, Houston, and Juneau
Alaska. This is geographical size not population.
In
population as well, clocking in at somehwere above half a millions,
Jacksonville ranks first among Florida's, the state where it resides,
cities. Famed as a habit of manatees (see the nearby St. Johns'
River on the map provided courtesy ChoochooClown.com)
Jacksonville is a large flat city of swamps and shopping malls
and reportedly suffers from terrible traffic. Perhaps in the future more will be heard from this interesting interesting and important city in the heart of Dixie.
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