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William Pope Duval (September 4, 1784 – March 19, 1854) was the first civilian governor of the Florida Territory, succeeding Andrew Jackson, who had been a military governor. In his twelve-year governorship, from 1822 to 1834, he divided Florida into four territories, established the local court system, and chose Tallahassee as the territory ...
0295003 [8] Website. City of Jacksonville. Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the seat of Duval County, [9] with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968. It is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020.
Parks in Duval County, Florida (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Protected areas of Duval County, Florida" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Duval County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 9,831. [1] [2] The county seat is San Diego. [3] The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1876. [4] It is named for Burr H. Duval, a soldier in the Texas Revolution who died in the Goliad Massacre .
12 × 20 mm guns. USS Douglas County (LST-731) was an LST-542 -class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named after counties in 12 states, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. LST-731 was laid down on 27 December 1943 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by the Dravo Corporation of Neville Island ...
Blount Island. / 30.40000°N 81.53028°W / 30.40000; -81.53028. Blount Island is an island of approximately 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) on the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida, nine nautical miles (16.7 km) west of the Atlantic Ocean. One of three public cargo facilities at the Port of Jacksonville is located there, and it is also ...
The government of Jacksonville is organized under the city charter and provides for a "strong" mayor–council system. The most notable feature of the government in Jacksonville, Florida, is that it is consolidated with Duval County, which the jurisdictions agreed to in the 1968 Jacksonville Consolidation . The Mayor of Jacksonville is elected ...
Archie Parr. / 27.59221; -98.41209. Archer " Archie " Parr (December 25, 1860 or 1859 [2] – October 18, 1942), was a Texas cattle rancher and politician, who was nicknamed "the Duke of Duval County ", where he was the local Democratic Party political boss. Beginning in 1914, Parr was elected to the Texas State Senate for numerous consecutive ...