The Winn-Dixie store at 7534 Beach Blvd will close.

[Megabox]

The Winn-Dixie store at 7534 Beach Blvd is closing down next month.

[spuwho]

The Winn-Dixie store at 7534 Beach Blvd is closing down next month.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/winn-dixie-closing-two-stores-florida-and-georgia/438118303

Surprised its not converting to a Harvey's.

Historically, that strip mall parcel is the former site of a logging railroad yard. They used to transfer logs collected from forests up and down what is now Southside Boulevard, unto cars with the FEC Mayport Line.

You can still see the bridge pilings for the old railroad in Pottsburg Creek just north of the Hogan Road Bridge, especially visible during low tide. The ROW continued east until just before where Southside & Hogan are today, it turned south east of Brackridge Park behind Enterprise Car Rental and Glenn's Liquors.  After that, all traces are lost to history.

Not sure, but I think the logging railroad ended in or around 1918 when NE Florida old growth was finally removed.

There is a website that describes all of the old logging railroads in Duval and this one was listed.  Most of the plat maps of Duval pre-1920 only go as far as East Street and it was hard to verify.

[lastdaysoffla]

interesting spuwho

[acme54321]

The Winn-Dixie store at 7534 Beach Blvd is closing down next month.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/winn-dixie-closing-two-stores-florida-and-georgia/438118303

Surprised its not converting to a Harvey's.

Historically, that strip mall parcel is the former site of a logging railroad yard. They used to transfer logs collected from forests up and down what is now Southside Boulevard, unto cars with the FEC Mayport Line.

You can still see the bridge pilings for the old railroad in Pottsburg Creek just north of the Hogan Road Bridge, especially visible during low tide. The ROW continued east until just before where Southside & Hogan are today, it turned south east of Brackridge Park behind Enterprise Car Rental and Glenn's Liquors.  After that, all traces are lost to history.

Not sure, but I think the logging railroad ended in or around 1918 when NE Florida old growth was finally removed.

There is a website that describes all of the old logging railroads in Duval and this one was listed.  Most of the plat maps of Duval pre-1920 only go as far as East Street and it was hard to verify.

Cool info.  I've tried to research this and a couple others in the area but there isn't much info.  One that caught my attention was on the west side, and appears to have been stand alone from somewhere off McGirts creek and it ran out through the west side.  The old map I found it on just showed it petering out somewhere down near Middleburg.  The other ran south from Jax Beach to what I can only assume was to service sand mines out at Ponte Vedra.

Do you have that website?

[BridgeTroll]

This 1898 Duval county map shows the RR crossing at Pottsberg to be the Jacksonville & Atlantic RR...

This is a great map full of details...

http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3933d.la000075/

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,26085.0.html

[spuwho]

This 1898 Duval county map shows the RR crossing at Pottsberg to be the Jacksonville & Atlantic RR...

This is a great map full of details...

http://www.loc.gov/resource/g3933d.la000075/

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,26085.0.html

The J&A Railroad  is the prior name of the FEC Mayport Line.

The website that list Florida's logging railroads (including Duval's) is here;

http://www.flarr.com/lumbercos.htm 

[Jim]

Met my wife in high school in 1993, move out of state, lost contact, moved back to Jax, ran back into her there on my first shift at that store in 1996.   We heard the store was closing so we re-enacted running back into each other there last week.