Images on the Home Page

 Beginning with the banner at the top of the home page, the images are

 as follows: (1) the Timucua Indians, some of the first

 residents  of the First Coast; (2) the owner of the legendary local eatery

 Berney's Restaurant, Bernard Berney ("The Man in Green")

 and his beloved Boston Bulldog, Peggy; (3) several big birds dining

 on oranges at a Jax ostrich farm during the early 1900s; (4) a

 snapshot of Marsha Phelts, prominent Florida historian, and her

 family at American Beach in 1958; (5) two gators caterwauling

 from a goofy old Florida postcard; (6) the steamboat, The City

 of Jacksonville; (7) a Florida ostrich that grew plumes for

 ladies hats ninety years ago; (8) a "Greetings from Jacksonville"

 postcard from about 1930 to 1945; and (9) an image from a postcard,

 postmarked in 1911, that shows the marvelous Bethel Baptist Church

 sanctuary, located near the Downtown Campus of Florida Community

 College at  Jacksonville. 

 The Bethel Baptist Church building was built in 1904, and the

 Baptist denomination at Bethel dates back to 1838.  There is no evidence

 that the old sanctuary's roof  was ever dark red in color, according to

 the church's archivist.  The picture on the homepage was taken from a

 postcard that may've been hand colored by an artist that wasn't sure

 about the roof's color.

 All of the homepage pictures came from the online Florida Photographic

 Photographic Collection, except for the images of Berney, 

 the ostriches eating oranges, which are from the website manager's

 personal collection, and the Bethel Baptist Church image and the

"Greetings from Jacksonville"  postcard, which are from the Florida

Collection at the Main Library.     

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