Hansontown

Hansontown was a community of working class African-Americans in Jacksonville, Florida.[1][2] It was razed in the 1940s in an urban redevelopment plan.[3][4][5]

The Great Fire of 1901 hit the area.[6] The North Jacksonville Street Railway, Town and Improvement Company planned a rail line to link downtown to Hansontown and other African American communities in Jacksonville. It had “shotgun rows”.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Hansontown / Downtown Campus, Florida State College at Jacksonville". jaxpsychogeo.com. October 6, 2017.
  2. "Higbee v. Housing Authority of Jacksonville, 197 So. 479, 143 Fla. 560 – CourtListener.com". CourtListener.
  3. "The Space Inbetween: Hansontown". Metro Jacksonville. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  4. "Remembering our History Hansontown". www.coj.net.
  5. AICP, Article by Ennis Davis. "Destroyed by Urban Renewal: Hansontown". www.thejaxsonmag.com.
  6. "FIRE'S ANNIVERSARY STIRS MEMORIES JACKSONVILLE RECALLS DISASTER THAT DESTROYED DOWNTOWN 85 YEARS AGO". Orlando Sentinel.
  7. Davis, Ennis. "The rich history of Jacksonville - the one you probably didn't know about". The Florida Times-Union.


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