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Clarke House Tours
The Clarke House, built in 1912 and located in Clarke House Park, 1039 Kingsley Avenue, is open for tours the second Sunday of each month from 2 PM to 4 PM. Sunday afternoons are the perfect time for a leisurely tour of the house, both upstairs and downstairs.
Orange Park Memories
Each 1st day of the month during 2024, the Historical Society of Orange Park is sharing vintage newspaper items, clipped from The Breeze newspaper (1959 to 1971). This month’s clip from March of 1967 reminds us of all the wonderful community outreach projects conducted by the Woman’s Club of Orange Park. It also gives us a wonderful picture of the beautiful Teresa Caldwell Miller, for whom the TC Miller Park and Community Center on McIntosh Ave. is named.
Mrs. Miller taught for over 40 years, before, during and after the desegregation of Florida schools. Starting at age 17 in the segregated Pear Grove school, she later became a teacher and the first administrator of Orange Park’s Negro Elementary School that still stands at TC Miller Park.
