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In 1911, a group of New Jersey businessmen including Thomas Edison petitioned for the establishment of a state chamber of commerce. They considered governor Woodrow Wilson was pushing policies seen as antagonistic towards business, and were also spurred into action by the 1911 Supreme Court decision ordering a breakup of Standard Oil of New ...
To emphasize the city's transportation capabilities, the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce filed "Jacksonville America's Logistics Center" as a trademark on November 9, 2007. It was formally registered on August 4, 2009. [ 5 ]
Jacksonville Beach, originally known as Ruby and then as Pablo Beach, grew around the series of luxury hotels built in the area. Further growth was facilitated by the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad connecting the town to Jacksonville. Atlantic Beach also grew as a resort community around a large hotel, and smaller hotels were built at Mayport.
Jacksonville Beach is a coastal resort city in Duval County, Florida, United States.The population was 23,830 at the 2020 census. [6] The city is part of group of communities collectively referred to as the Jacksonville Beaches on the northern half of San Pablo Island. [8]
The world's oldest English-speaking chamber of commerce and oldest chamber of commerce in North America is the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, founded in 1750. [7] [8] The Glasgow Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1783. [9]
In the summer of 1912, [5] Lyman G. Haskell, a medical doctor in Jacksonville who also worked as the Physical Director of the YMCA, and Clarence H. MacDonald, Playground Director for the City of Jacksonville, conceptualized and founded a corps affiliated with the United States Volunteer Life Saving Corps at what was then called Pablo Beach ...
On this day, more than 200 white men who carried around wooden ax handles viciously attacked innocent, unarmed black protestors. The lunch-in inspired members of the Youth Council of Jacksonville to launch the nonviolent sit-in in Jacksonville. The leader that launch this sit-in in Jacksonville was Rutledge Pearson. Pearson, a young civil ...
1937 poster celebrating the United States' first foreign trade zone, Staten Island In the United States, a foreign-trade zone (FTZ) is a geographical area, in (or adjacent to) a United States port of entry, where commercial merchandise, both domestic and foreign, receives the same Customs treatment it would if it were outside the commerce of the United States.