Local History Reading List

Orange Park

Cheatwood, Cynthia, Images of America: Orange Park 

Dewsbury, Donald, Monkey Farm: A History of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology, Orange Park, Florida, 1930-1965

Gano, Dr. (aka W. G. Benedict) “Florida, the healthiest state in the union. Orange Park, near Jacksonville, one of its greatest attractions”

Hayes, Cathy, The Ape in Our House

Maierfeldt, William C, Sr, Early Days in Orange Park

Massee, Frica, Beyond the Back Yard: Tales of Frica Massee

Clay County

Biddle, Margaret Seton Fleming, Hibernia: The Unreturning Tide

Blakey, Arch, Parade of Memories

Hooper, Kevin, The Early History of Clay County: A Wilderness that Could be Tamed

Clay County Writers Group, Embedded in Clay

Hooper, Kevin, Images of America: Green Cove Springs

Hooper, Kevin, Images of America: Clay County

Ritchie, Scott, The Flemings of Fleming Island: An Historic Florida Family

Willock, Roger, Unaccustomed to Fear: A Biography of Roy S. Geiger

Jacksonville and Environs

Atwood, Mary, Historic Homes of Florida’s First Coast

Cusik, James G.,The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida

Ford  Susan and Mandarin Museum & Historical Society, Images of America: Mandarin

Graff, Mary. Mandarin on the St. Johns 

Martin, Richard A and Daniel L Schafer, et al., Jacksonville's Ordeal by Fire: A Civil War History

Oesterreicher, Michael, Pioneer Family: Life on Florida's Twentieth-Century Frontier

Schafer, Daniel L, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner

Schafer, Daniel L, Thunder on the River: The Civil War in Northeast Florida

Schafer, Daniel L, William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida

Schafer, Daniel L, Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator

Stowe, Harriett Beecher, Calling Yankees to Florida: Harriett Becher Stowe’s Forgotten Tourist Articles, Edited by John T Foster Jr. and Sarah Whitmer Foster

Stowe, Harriett Beecher, Palmetto Leaves

Thulesius, Olav, Harriet Beecher Stowe in Florida, 1867 to 1884