Amelia Island Historic District in Nassau County, Florida

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Nassau County attraction

Amelia Island Historic District

Nassau County · North Florida & First Coast

Fifty walkable blocks of Victorian downtown Fernandina Beach, listed on the National Register as the Fernandina Beach Historic District on July 20, 1973.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

The boundaries were widened on April 20, 1987, and the listing now covers about fifteen hundred acres with roughly three hundred buildings in it, mostly Victorian and Frame Vernacular with Queen Anne touches on the houses. Among them are the Nassau County Courthouse, the train depot, the post office, St. Peter's Episcopal Church and the Fairbanks, Tabby and Bailey houses. Centre Street runs eight blocks from the harbor and carries most of the shops and restaurants. The town exists in this spot because Senator David Levy Yulee moved it here in the 1850s to be the terminus of his railroad, the first to cross Florida, which ran from here to Cedar Key and was completed in 1861. Fernandina is the last Spanish city platted in the western hemisphere, laid out in 1811 and named for King Ferdinand the Seventh. The city passed a preservation ordinance in 1975 and a Historic District Council reviews work on these buildings

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