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Community => History => Topic started by: IrvAdams on July 01, 2014, 09:14:50 AM

Title: See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film
Post by: IrvAdams on July 01, 2014, 09:14:50 AM
Incredible the quality and detail. And that it survived all these years. Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Post by: BridgeTroll on July 01, 2014, 10:05:40 AM
Wow!  This must be primarily Springfield and Main St.  At least one shot of streetcars doing what they do.  I saw the Nathan Bedford Forrest Calvary vets were in attendance.  Plenty of seemingly identifiable landmarks for our historians!
Title: See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film
Post by: Metro Jacksonville on July 01, 2014, 10:25:01 AM
See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film

(http://photos.metrojacksonville.com/History/Historic-Images-Florida/i-mds4q4b/0/M/Springfield-1900-M.jpg)

In 1914, forty eight thousand people from around the South descended on Jacksonville fifty years after the end of the Civil War to honor the Veterans of the Confederate War.  They camped along Hogans Creek in the Springfield neighborhood and staged a massive parade which was caught on film by Jville's film industry.  Check out the amazing footage of Jacksonville as it was a hundred years ago.

Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2014-jul-see-jacksonville-in-1914-confederate-reunion-film
Title: Re: See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film
Post by: spuwho on July 01, 2014, 11:58:34 AM
Fantastic stuff!  Thanks to all who put this out there to see. Great history!  I love it.
Title: Re: See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film
Post by: Demosthenes on July 01, 2014, 01:30:56 PM
Oh, I was thrilled when I came across it as I had never seen this footage before!. I dont visit this site all the time, so I wasnt sure if I just missed it. Glad its new!
Title: Re: See Jacksonville in 1914! Confederate Reunion Film
Post by: Chaz1969 on July 02, 2014, 07:09:07 PM
Amazing stuff. Is that the Westside Jig I see at 2:20? ;-)