Timeline

Pre- 1562 Prehistoric Timucuan Indians
1562 – 1565 French Huguenots settle at Ft. Caroline
1565 – 1763   1st Spanish Period
Ft. SaintXIsabel at Reddie Point
1763 – 1783 British Period
F. Fatio, Reddy, and S. Potts Plantations
1783 – 1821 2nd Spanish Period
1797 Don Francis Joseph Richard I settles in Arlington
1817 – 1860 Strawberry Mills Plantation
1821 – 1845 U.S. Territorial Period
1840 Bigelow Plantation
1845 – Present Statehood
1846 – 1870 Anna Kingsley resides in Arlington
Circa 1848 Richard Holden House built
Circa 1850 Sammis Plantation House built
1861 – 1865 Civil War
1865 – 1900 Civil War Reconstruction Period
Arlington Bluff, Eggleston, Floral  Bluff, and Gilmore communities established
1888 – 1897 J.M. &  P. Rail Road in operation
1888 – 1897 Kalem Players film in and around Arlington
1910 Atlantic Blvd. to beach completed (Pottsburg Bridge)
1912 Alderman Realty established
Residential Development of Arlington begins
1922 Richard Norman purchases Eagle Film City studios and begins producing and filming silent films
1950 Jacksonville University relocated to Arlington
1953 Mathews Bridge completed
1955 Elvis Presley visits Arlington
1968 Consolidation of Arlington with the City of Jacksonville
1993 Old Arlington, Inc. established