The Westside – Blair Rd.
In Jacksonville if you head west out Normandy Blvd, you will cross a line of demarcation. A boundary, a separation, a distinction.
The people that grew up in this area know that border. As you cross Fouraker Rd. you are on different terrrain than the other areas of Jacksonville. The land has now been quartered and re-quartered. Subdivisions have been built on what was once sprawling pasture land.
It is no longer recognizable as the majestic acreage that it once was.
Cattle grazed under massive oaks. They lumbered to the creek for their daily water. They gave milk and beef, complimantary to the garden vegetables. Biscuits were a staple. No one knows biscuits like people who were raised on the Westide.
Even in my life time it was not uncommon to see someone traveling on horse. ( That was me! )
Many of us, whose family’s have been there since the 1840’s know we have a different history.
Peculiar personal histories.
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