Ocala, Florida Confederate Monument

[donna]

It is a wonderful looking monument. Will definitely visit it when in Florida Memorial Day week. Also Museum sounds interesting. Is it near the Silver Springs park? Been meaning to go there too.

 

[nitrofd]

It is a wonderful looking monument. Will definitely visit it when in Florida Memorial Day week. Also Museum sounds interesting. Is it near the Silver Springs park? Been meaning to go there too.

Yes, the museum is not far far Silver Springs Park,one of the first tourist attractions in Florida with their glass bottom boat rides.gone are the days of yesterday as the park is not what it used to be.mostly used now for concerts on the weekend now.
since you are going to be here during memorial day week I can really recommend that you go to Palatka on that weekend for the "Blue Crab Festival".it is huge and one of the best ones around.the food is great and so is the entertainment.you walk by the Putman County Courthouse where there is also a large Confederate monument right in front of the courthouse on the lawn in a place of prominence right in the open.

 

[nitrofd]

Here's a very good guide to Florida's Civil War monuments: http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/civilwar/monuments

Thanks for posting this site as I have never seen it before, but I have seen the majority of monuments and historical plaques in Florida.great reference site which I have booked marked.again thanks.

 

[nitrofd]

The inscription reads as follows:

The South reveres
her Washington,
Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Andrew Jackson,
and others, who laid
the foundations of
our Grand Republic.
She honors her Lee,
Stonewall Jackson,
Stuart, Johnson, Forest,
and every brave son
who fought to preserve
our liberties,
guaranteed by the fathers,
under the constitution.

CONFEDERATE

Erected A.D. 1908
by
Dickison Chapter No. 56 U.D.C.
in honor of
The Heroes of the
Confederacy

http://www.flpublicarchaeology.org/civilwar/monuments/ocala/overview.jpg.php

This is a site that is worth exploring,but one that you might find of special interest is located in Jacksonville,fl.if you click on the photos for Jacksonville go to the one marked Confederate park as this one is of special interest as it is dedicated to the women of the confederacy.I will give a short story of its history.
Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, 956 Hubbard Street.
It was during a 1900 Florida reunion of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) that a serious discussion of the possibility of a memorial to the Women of the Confederacy developed,and in1901 the Florida division of the UCV formally resolved to build such a monument.Dinan Park in the City of Jacksonville was selected as the monument site and UCV members raised $12,000,almost half the purchase price,with the Florida legislature providing the balance.the project got under way with the contracting of one of the nation's leading sculptors Allen Newman.Construction on the 45 foot high rotunda began in July 1912.the installation of the Newman's sculptures took place in mid-1915 and the formal dedication occurred in October 1915.Also in the Parliament is a historical marker erected by the Sons of Confederate Veterans commemorating the May 1914 national reunion of Confederate veterans which drew an estimated 70,000 visitors to Jacksonville,including 8,000 veterans,manyof whom camped in tents in Dinan Park.To commerce the event,the City of Jacksonville changed the park name to CONFEDERATE PARK in October 1914.
FYI the park is still called that today.

 

[CSA Today]

This is a site that is worth exploring,but one that you might find of special interest is located in Jacksonville,fl.if you click on the photos for Jacksonville go to the one marked Confederate park as this one is of special interest as it is dedicated to the women of the confederacy.I will give a short story of its history.
Monument to the Women of the Confederacy, 956 Hubbard Street.
It was during a 1900 Florida reunion of the United Confederate Veterans (UCV) that a serious discussion of the possibility of a memorial to the Women of the Confederacy developed,and in1901 the Florida division of the UCV formally resolved to build such a monument.Dinan Park in the City of Jacksonville was selected as the monument site and UCV members raised $12,000,almost half the purchase price,with the Florida legislature providing the balance.the project got under way with the contracting of one of the nation's leading sculptors Allen Newman.Construction on the 45 foot high rotunda began in July 1912.the installation of the Newman's sculptures took place in mid-1915 and the formal dedication occurred in October 1915.Also in the Parliament is a historical marker erected by the Sons of Confederate Veterans commemorating the May 1914 national reunion of Confederate veterans which drew an estimated 70,000 visitors to Jacksonville,including 8,000 veterans,manyof whom camped in tents in Dinan Park.To commerce the event,the City of Jacksonville changed the park name to CONFEDERATE PARK in October 1914.
FYI the park is still called that today.

 

[nitrofd]

I am taking about Forrest's last name being misspelled as "Forest". Not that much of an honor.

There might be a chance of Forrest's name being spelled incorrectly being intentional as you look at the size of the fonts in the inscription if you had to put in another " r" it would have to change the entire plac ement of the letters.not sure if this true or not but it seems relevant.

 

[CSA Today]

There might be a chance of Forrest's name being spelled incorrectly being intentional as you look at the size of the fonts in the inscription if you had to put in another " r" it would have to change the entire plac ement of the letters.not sure if this true or not but it seems relevant.

Good explanation.

 

[DRW]

No I am not referring to you at all,I lived in south Florida for years and the east coast is all displaced new yorkers,new jersey and all the other states in the northeast.on the west coast they all come from the midwest.there is a saying here in Florida that you have to go north to go south.

BTW, the migration goes both ways. You'll find thousands of descendants of east coast Floridians living in Boston and New York and other north-east cities, and many Panhandle-West Floridian descendants in the Detroit area. These are the families of African Americans who left Florida by the tens of thousands and followed the train lines north from WWI through the 1960s. The demographics of north and west Florida is very interesting as you'll find several northern Florida counties that had black majorities at the turn of the 20th century but only small percentages now.

 

[nitrofd]

The concept of share-cropping and the want of work created a large migration from the deep south to the north,most notably was the development of the auto industry which caused a large migration to Michigan.

 

[Frito]

As a former resident of Palatka Florida I highly recommend The Blue Crab Festival its the best music and food you can get in Florida plus a lot of other neat things to go along with it.

 

[DRW]

As a former resident of Palatka Florida I highly recommend The Blue Crab Festival its the best music and food you can get in Florida plus a lot of other neat things to go along with it.

I visited friends in Palatka last year. Interesting place.

 

[nitrofd]

As a former resident of Palatka Florida I highly recommend The Blue Crab Festival its the best music and food you can get in Florida plus a lot of other neat things to go along with it.

The Blue Crab Festival is one of the largest in the state.they average in excess of 700,000 people for the 3 days.since the festival is on Memorial Day Weekend it is advisable to wear very loose cool clothing as it is normally very hot in the sun and since the festival takes on the St.Johns River it is always humid,but there is a huge Budweiser Tent there you can stop and get a couple of cold ones and sit down and rest awhile and listen to all the great entertainment.

 

[CSA Today]

Unveiling a Confederate monument at the courthouse - Ocala, Florida

 

[nitrofd]

Unveiling a Confederate monument at the courthouse - Ocala, Florida

Thanks for posting the pic CSA Today.That's the picture I mentioned in an earlier post.great looking bunch of ladies.
p.s.this was the unveiling photo from 1908.

 

[donna]

There is chapter of UDC in Ocala now, maybe the same chapter. I will check its dates.

When we move to Ocala will have to transfer to that chapter.

 

[donna]

The Captain John J. Dickison Chapter UDC is in Bunnell . I don't know where that is.

The one in Ocala is General Robert Bulloch Chapter.

 

[nitrofd]

The Captain John J. Dickison Chapter UDC is in Bunnell . I don't know where that is.

The one in Ocala is General Robert Bulloch Chapter.

Bunnell is about 80 miles from where I live.you just take state road 100 southeast alway to I-95 and that's where Bunnell is.its close to the ocean but it is still really rural but is has been developing lately.some good deer hunting there.

 

[donna]

I think that too far for meeting. Will go to one in Ocala when time.

 

[nitrofd]

I think that too far for meeting. Will go to one in Ocala when time.

From Ocala it would be a ride as you would have to take Fla.Rt.40 east almost to Daytona the take I-95 about 25 miles north,total time 1hr.45mins.

 

[DanF]

Florida takes a lot of pride in their heritage.the UDC and the SCV are very active north of orlando.below orlando you are in the northeast and the midwest.

Only on the coasts, the interior is pure southern.