New Jax Witty

At some point, most of us who live in Jacksonville learn about the fire of 1901 that destroyed most of the city. That's why I was surpri...

I've met several people thinking of relocating to Jacksonville, and I often tell them to check out my website for my guide to the city. ...

I've driven past the Arlington mural along the Arlington Expressway plenty of times by this point, and I'm still trying to figure i...

I was trying to find out what happened to the lovely 33-acre May Mann Jennings Park over on the North Side when I had this great idea for to...

[I began writing this article BEFORE Mayor Lenny Curry participated in a march led by Leonard Fournette and decided to simultaneously begin ...

I know it kind of seems like news that a man who buried his pet 30 years ago could not find the headstone in a local pet cemetery. It's ...

Florida teachers should be riding the 50th Anniversary of the space program fervor. Space travel is pretty cool, whether it happened a hal...

I was perusing old Florida newspapers when I came across a 1927 article that mentioned Jacksonville. In the article, it was implied that ...

I was just on an insurance website that listed DuVal as the county we're in. Some people go by DuWhatever, while others use DuSomethin...

It was late October last year when I realized I'd missed Sweetest Day. This year, as the calendar turned to mid-October, I knew it wou...

I know history is important to Floridians, but this one seems to be a bit of a reach. Our National Guard unit (at least on the license pl...

This is a series New Jax Witty is undertaking in order to learn more about local history through the names used in public places around to...

Here's a thought. What if St. Augustine asked just regular people to help add the "context" that the city has deemed necessa...

When we exited our Christmas Eve church service this year, the walkways were lined with paper bags with candles inside. One of the other c...

I was stuck with a weekend lineup that did not interest me, so I tuned into Local Haunts, mostly because of the cheesiest intro ever. It...

I love it when people are literal in naming of places. Obvious names, like Steep Canyon, are more fun than British aristocratic names, li...

I was doing research on local history, and I figured maybe the library would have some books for me. I was kind of right, maybe. I found a r...

I took the tour of Fort Caroline with my kids' school. It was an interesting tour, but I wondered a bit at some of the history being t...