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The Municipal Zoo opened in the Springfield neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida on May 12, 1914. The first animal on exhibit was a red deer fawn.. On July 19, 1925, the zoo moved to a 37.5-acre (152,000 m 2) site on the Trout River off Heckscher Drive in the city's Northside area.
By the 1870s it became apparent that San Francisco was in dire need of a federal building to house the federal courts and the post office that were located in various downtown buildings. In 1887 a commission delegated to select a site reported that the $350,000 allocated by the U.S. Congress was insufficient and the sum was raised to $1,250,000.
The Fort Caroline National Memorial is located in the Timucuan Preserve, as is the Kingsley Plantation, the oldest standing plantation in the state.The Preserve is maintained through cooperation by the National Park Service, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the City of Jacksonville Department of Parks and Recreation, which partner to support the Timucuan Parks Foundation.
The home was built for James E. Merrill who started an iron works in Jacksonville in 1875. The company became Merrill-Stevens Engineering Co. and by the late 1880s, it was one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the Southern United States. In 1879, the house was built at 229 Lafayette Street, just a short walk from Merrill's iron works on ...
USA Federal Credit Union began in November 1953 with ten members as N.T.C. San Diego Employees Federal Credit Union. The employee-organized federal credit union was initially formed to serve the civilian employees of Naval Training Center San Diego. In 1955, all military personnel working at N.T.C. were added to the field of membership. As the ...
A group of Mississippi hunters have broken the state record for the longest alligator ever captured in the state with a 14-foot-3-inch reptile weighing just over 800 pounds.
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (informally referred to as the San Francisco Fed) is the federal bank for the twelfth district in the United States.The twelfth district is made up of nine western states—Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington—plus the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.
A rare instance of a large alligator forcing its way into a home has been reported in Southwest Florida, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.