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Listen: The Latin ProgramLooking down Forsyth Street at a devastated district after the fire of 1901
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A racing blaze descended on Bay Street, and in the dawn of May 4, 1901, Jacksonville was a ravaged remmant of a city.
Jacksonville's Great Fire of 1901 was the largest metropolitan fire in the American South. The fire began on May 3, 1901 with a spark from a cook stove at lunchtime which ignited piles of Spanish moss drying for a mattress factory. Located at Davis and Beaver streets, the factory fire spread to most of the downtown area. By 8:30 when the fire was brought under control, 2,368 buildings were destroyed, 10,000 people were homeless and seven residents were dead. The city spent the next decade rebuilding its downtown.
Photographed from the top of the Federal Building.
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