Urban Parks: Waterworks Park

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Jacksonville is so lame now.

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stephendare
May 04, 2009, 11:05:45 AM

How did JEA fall down on this?

My understanding is that after the Museum was built out at JEA's expense and offered to SPAR, the organization then demanded that JEA pay them to operate the museum that they asked the JEA to build.

I guess they were too busy paying for those retail feasibility studies.

Just happened to notice this and thought I'd correct it.

I was actually still on the board when this came up and spent a decent amount of time with Rita Regan on it. First, this was JEA's baby and the offer came when the building was all but done.  While it was very desirable to have that building as the office for SPAR Council, we did have a building that we owned.  Also, there were many restrictions on using the building, there were requirements to man the museum for JEA developed and run events, requirements that SPAR Council pay the entire electrical bill and water and, to be honest, the layout and required hours did not really work well for an organization that supposedly was there for the entire community of Springfield. Doing the museum and keeping the current office was not financially possible. It wasn't a case where SPAR Council demanded they get paid, it was a case where the real world numbers did not work out to make it feasible for both parties.  As we know, no one else stepped up to the plate to man the museum either.  I suspect the real cuprit is the requirements imposed by 9/11.

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1889 - President Grover Cleveland visits the Sub-Tropical Exposition for the second time.

Grover Cleveland's visit to Jax in Harpers Weekly:

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Grover Cleveland is one of my favorite presidents.  He vetoed a bill allocating $10,000 to help drought-stricken farmers in Texas, saying, "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution."

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Is it possible that the log cabin depicted on that postcard represents the home of L. Z. and Maria Hogans, circa 1820?