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Title: History of early Jacksonville, Florida; being an authentic record of events from the earliest times to and including the civil war by Thomas Frederick Davis
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, T. Frederick (Thomas Frederick), 1877-1946
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Publisher: Jacksonville, The H. & W. B. Drew company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Washington Street on the east, Laura on thewest, Duval on the north, and the river on thesouth. BAY STKEET, SOUTH SIDE. There were no wharves or stores on the southside of Bay Street between Ocean and Laura, ex-cept a long one-story, wooden building nearLaura, called the government building, builtby the United States government during theSeminole Indian war as a commissary for sup-plies. Just west of Pine (Main), on the riverfront stood a saw mill operated by Mr. J. B.Barbee. Fire destroyed it at an early date, con-suming with it a human being, one of the sorrow-ful events of those early times. Across Ocean Street on the south side of Bay,east. General Thomas Ledwith had a store and awharf; he was succeeded by Alsop & Bours.Several other stores occupied this block, amongthem Gunby & Fernandez, later Fernandez &Bisbee, and later still Bisbee & Canova. East ofthis store was that of S. N. Williams, and near the *Eeminiseenees of Mrs. W. M. Bostwick. (See AuthorsPreface.)
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^ cf m o GO O O o < HISTORY OF EARLY JACKSONVILLE 105 corner of Newnan was McRory^s book store. Thefirst brick building built in Jacksonville adjoinedthe Ledwith store and was occupied by C. D. Oak,jeweler and watchmaker; this was about 1850. A building stood on the southeast corner ofNewnan and Bay and was occupied from the earli-est times, by different parties. Finegan & Bel-chasse are among the first recalled; later Dr. T.Hartridge. Next to this store was that of Bel-lows; then Santo. The United States mail wasfirst delivered from this locality. Next to Santowas Morris Keil, a small store, tailoring done byhusband and the store kept by the wife. CaptainCharles Willey had a dwelling on the corner ofMarket, and a wharf from which he ran a line ofsailing vessels to Charleston and another to KeyWest. These names are remembered in connec-tion with this dwelling: Mrs. Libby, mother ofMrs. Willey; Frances Yale, daughter of CaptainWilley. Afterward Columbus Drew, Sr.,

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