City Directories

Webb's Jacksonville and Consolidated Directory, 1887 ed.

Prefatory.

To the Public:

In submitting our Fifth Volume of the City Directory we congratulate the citizens of Jacksonville upon the progress that the city has made during the past year.
It is not speculative when we answer that this city is destined to be the metropolis of the South. The number of character of new buildings, both business and public, that have been erected during the past year are now in course of constructions how conclusively that Jacksonville is a commercial and industrial city.
The business of Jacksonville is not based upon any future improvements. While future facilities may be added to Florida in the way of dredging the principal rivers and constructing canals that will contribute largely to the growth of the city, the fact remains that the city will ever be the gateway to the winter resorts of Florida, the basis of supplies for the vast population that is now permanently locating in Southern Florida.
There are 17,784 names in this issue of The Directory. Estimating the population at 2 ½ to each name, give a total of 44,460; an increase of 3,868 over 1903, and 16,031 over the census of 1900.
It is generally conceded that a city directory is the best representative of the enterprise and growth of a city. AN examination of the Directory will prove conclusively any claims made here for Jacksonville can be fully established.

Respectfully,

THE PUBLISHERS.
1904 Jacksonville City Directory