Mandarin, Florida

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Mandarin is a neighborhood located in the southmost portion of Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida, United States. It is located on the eastern banks of the St. Johns River, across from Orange Park.

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[edit] History

[edit] Harriet Beecher Stowe

In 1867 the famous author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe bought a cottage here. For the next seventeen winters, she welcomed tourists debarking from the steamers making their way down the St. Johns River and charged them 75 cents each to meet her and admire her surroundings.

Stowe, although best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin about the cruelty of slavery, also wrote about Florida .

She had promised her Boston publisher another novel, but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of sketches of the land and the people which she submitted in 1872 under the title Palmetto Leaves. Her second book did not outsell hr first novel, but did have the effect of drawing rich and fashionable tourists to visit her.

In Palmetto Leaves Stowe describes life in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century; "a tumble-down, wild, panicky kind of life—this general happy-go-luckiness which Florida inculcates." Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing, and river touring expeditions and simple stories of events and people in this tropical "winter summer" land became the first unsolicited promotional writing to interest northern tourists in Florida.[1]

A small chapel is dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe in Mandarin.

[edit] 20th Century

In 1967, the city of Jacksonville and most of Duval County formed a consolidated municipal unit. As part of this process, Mandarin ceased to exist as a political entity, and became part of the City of Jacksonville.

In 1990, with the rapid growth of Mandarin, a new public high school was opened in the area. Several prominent citizens in Jacksonville urged that the new school be named Harriet Beecher Stowe High School, but the proposal did not receive widespread acceptance, and instead the school was simply named, Mandarin High School.

[edit] Geography

Mandarin is located at 30°09′37″N, 81°39′34″W (30.1603, -81.6594).GR1

[edit] References

  1. ^ Palmetto Leaves. University Press of Florida. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.

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Cities and towns of Duval County, Florida
County seat Jacksonville Location of Duval County
Cities and towns Atlantic Beach | Baldwin | Jacksonville | Jacksonville Beach | Neptune Beach
Adjacent Counties Nassau | St. Johns | Clay | Baker



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