Jacksonville
Jacksonville names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Jacksonville a city and countyseat of Duval co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and countyseat of Duval co., Fla.; on St. Johns river, and the Florida East Coast, and other railroads; 139 miles S. of Savannah. The city is about 30 miles from the coast; and has regular steamer communication with all points on the St. Johns river, and also to Charleston, New York, and Boston, and sailing vessel communication with various foreign ports. The city is a farming, fruit growing, and lumbering trade and jobbing center for Florida and Southern Georgia. It has valuable phosphate interests. Jacksonville is highly esteemed as a winter resort, especially by people from the Northern and Eastern States. It is the seat of St. Luke's Hospital, the largest in the State, and the general offices of the Florida, Central and Pensacola, and the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railroads. There is an excellent system of docks. The city has National and several State and private banks. During the American-Spanish War, Jacksonville was used extensively as a point of embarkation of troops and supplies for Cuba, and as a coaling station. Pop. (1910) 57,699; (1920) 91,- 558.
Jacksonville a city and capital of Morgan co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and capital of Morgan co., Ill.; on the Wabash, Chicago and Alton, the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis, and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroads; 34 miles W. of Springfield, the State capital. The city, which is popularly known as the "Athens of the West," is the seat of Illinois College, Illinois Woman's College, Illinois College of Music, Illinois State Institutions for the Education of Deaf Mutes and the Blind, State Central Insane Hospital, Passavout Memorial and Our Saviour Hospitals. The city is the trade center for Morgan, Scott, and parts of Green and Cass counties; is largely concerned in the agricultural industry; has manufactories of woolen goods, candy, steel products, machinery, woven wire, pumps, and wind mills, boilers, brick and tile, paper, and flour. There are a National and other banks, daily, weekly, and semi-monthly periodicals. Pop. (1900) 15,078; (1910) 15,326; (1920) 15,713.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, Jacksonville, Florida had just passed 91,558 people and was valued chiefly as a winter resort for "people from the Northern and Eastern States" and a shipping point for lumber, fruit and phosphate. In 1968 the city merged its government with Duval County, taking in some 840 square miles and becoming the largest city in the contiguous United States by land area; its population reached roughly 950,000 in the 2020 census, making it Florida's most populous city, while the resort trade long ago shifted south to Miami and Orlando. Its economy now rests on banking, insurance, logistics and the Navy's Mayport and Jacksonville bases rather than fruit and phosphate. The Illinois Jacksonville has barely grown at all, standing near 17,700 in 2020; Illinois College survives, but the Illinois Woman's College of the entry became MacMurray College and closed in 2020, and the state insane hospital, latterly the Jacksonville Developmental Center, was shut in 2012.
Written for this edition, 2026.