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History of Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County. Since 1968, Jacksonville has been the largest city in land area in the continental United States. This resulted from the consolidation of the city and county government, along with a corresponding expansion of the city limits to include almost the entire county. In 2006, the city proper had an estimated population of 834,789 with a Greater Jacksonville metropolitan population of more than 1.3 million. Jacksonville is the third most populated city on the East Coast of the United States, after New York City and Philadelphia. It is the central city of the Greater Jacksonville Metropolitan Statistical Area, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state.
About 25 miles south of the Georgia border, Jacksonville is in the First Coast region of northeast Florida. The city is centered on the banks of the St. Johns River, which after flowing almost due north for most of its length makes a sharp turn to the east in downtown Jacksonville, eventually emptying into the Atlantic Ocean about 20 miles east of downtown. The settlement that became Jacksonville was founded in 1791 as Cowford, because of its location at a narrow point in the river across which cattle were once driven. The city was renamed in 1822 for Andrew Jackson, the first List of governors of Florida and eventual seventh List of Presidents of the United States. A bronze sculpture of Jackson atop a steed, copied from the original in Washington, D.C., stands downtown at the corner of Hogan and Water Streets.
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