Neighborhoods: South Riverside

[Metro Jacksonville]

Neighborhoods: South Riverside



Classified by the City of Jacksonville as South Riverside, this neighborhood encompasses parts of San Marco and the 19th century rural Philips community.


Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2010-aug-neighborhoods-south-riverside

[simms3]

Not a very photographic neighborhood no matter how good the photographer is.  Is it even historic and don't we call the area Lakewood or something else nowadays?

[cline]

Lakewood is adjacent to South Riverside to the south.

[Miss Fixit]

Thanks for another interesting article.  I've always been curious about that cemetery and have been watching its recent restoration with interest.

There are actually a number of neighborhoods between South Riverside and Lakewood.  The legal subdivisions encompassed by this article include parts of South Riverside, the William Craig Grant, and Brookwood Terrace, among others.  Colonial Terrace and Ridgewood are between Brookwood Terrace and Lakewood.

Most folks who live in "South Riverside" would refer to their neighborhood as San Marco.

[Abhishek]

nice post.
I like outlining the neighborhood on a walkscore map. Clever.

[stjr]

This is really the tale of two "cities".  Some of the streets in this area are very much eastward extensions of the housing found in San Marco west of Hendricks.  Much of the rest is small homes to rural in nature, especially in pockets off of St. Augustine Road.  Definitely, two distinct identities.  I doubt the local residents in these two groupings have much in common as a neighborhood.

[thelakelander]

Basically, you have a 19th century rural community that was engulfed by the booming growth of Jacksonville in the early 20th century.  Unfortunately, it does not seem that the city has invested much in some of these areas since the 1968 merger that originally bought them into city limits.

[Debbie Thompson]

Thanks for identifying the little blue church.  I had noticed it and wondered about it.

[north miami]

Basically, you have a 19th century rural community that was engulfed by the booming growth of Jacksonville in the early 20th century.  Unfortunately, it does not seem that the city has invested much in some of these areas since the 1968 merger that originally bought them into city limits.

That is one of the most pentrating insights I have seen written about the merger in the past year or so.

[floridaforester]

Love Checkers BBQ!  Art is an absolute hoot and knows how to keep his customers happy with great food and entertainment to boot.  Last I was there it was BYOB or wine.  Anybody know if that's still the case?