World's Finest Beach
Download or Read eBook World's Finest Beach PDF written by Donald J. Mabry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Donald J. Mabry |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2010-05-06 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781614231783 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1614231788 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis World's Finest Beach by : Donald J. Mabry
Book excerpt: Beginning as a summer resort for the wealthy, the oceanfront of Jacksonville has morphed into an outrageously popular tourist destination, stretching from Mayport to Ponte Vedra Beach. Encompassing a fishing village, luxury hotels, a carnival, railroads, mines and flocks of tourists, these beaches have a vast and eclectic history. Discover how Mayport became an adjunct of one of the largest naval bases in the United States and how a former mine called Mineral City became Ponte Vedra. Noted historian Don Mabry traces the fascinating history of what he still considers home from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first in this warm account of the "World's Finest Beach."?
