Greetings from Mandarin

[UpOn2Wheels]

Long time lurker, new poster, etc.

Been in Jax since '07; spent a year living in San Marco, now living in the swamps of Mandarin.

[JeffreyS]

Welcome where were you before Jax?

[sandyshoes]

Welcome ...Mandarin is very old and has a wonderful history and their own historical park and museum.  (Walter C. Jones, I believe it is - you might want to google it).

[Ocklawaha]

Welcome! Hey, watch for those live Yankee shells which could be buried in your yard. The fools shelled the Stowe home and several other farms and plantations. Stowe wasn't exactly a Confederate!

OCKLAWAHA

[UpOn2Wheels]

Welcome where were you before Jax?

NW New Jersey, by the NY border.  Before that, Minnesota.  Before that, Colorado, which is as close to home as anywhere.

[UpOn2Wheels]

Welcome ...Mandarin is very old and has a wonderful history and their own historical park and museum.  (Walter C. Jones, I believe it is - you might want to google it).

Yep, I know it well.  I walk the dog through that park every morning.

[UpOn2Wheels]

Welcome! Hey, watch for those live Yankee shells which could be buried in your yard. The fools shelled the Stowe home and several other farms and plantations. Stowe wasn't exactly a Confederate!

OCKLAWAHA

Thanks Ock!  Not too worried - my yard was probably swamp until the 1980s...

[stjr]

UpOn2, welcome.

MJ has several references to Mandarin on other boards.  Try using the search to locate some of them.

Here is one MJ photo tour of Mandarin with accompanying thread to get you started:  http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,3886.0.html

[Sportmotor]

Whats up lurker

[Reaper man]

*waves*

Hello.

[north miami]

Thanks Ock!  Not too worried - my yard was probably swamp until the 1980s...


Yes indeed it probably was....and may still be,even though you don't yet know it.
I recall attending some sort of 'visioning' or presentation in the late 70's regarding the*anticipated* Mandarin "Growth" with many 'before' aerials and other images.The good news is that Duval averted turning SR13 into an exact copy of SR 21/Blanding over Clay County way........

And in the more recent past, further conversion-the long standing State Conservation and Recreation Lands purchase program/C.A.R.L once had before it an ambitious 6500 acre Julington/Durbin public conservation lands proposal.
We ended up with,per Delaney Preservation approach,"unique private/public" plan.The state/public ended up with some smaller acreage/Penninsula and related and the rest went to development.The interface between the two reveals complex boundary-every square inch of 'upland/developable' gerrymandered.The St.Johns Water Management District Land Management Planning staff thought the CADCAM went nuts in error when they saw the sqiggly boundary.

Go check out the Bailey Ranch (former St.Johns County Commissioner Sarah Bailey) along Bishop Estates and see the 'right to farm" signs posted on the 60 acre parcel,now surrounded by roof tops.General development once had rhe surrounding lands.As Sarah's guest,I used to hunt the property before the roof tops.Sarah and husband John wished they had bought much more acreage way way back when.

General development was bad energy.

[kellypope]

Can you talk more about the "right to farm" thing? That sounds really interesting.