Infinite Road
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Narrated by The Historian 68 km · about 57 min · 12 stories

South along the St. Johns: the Great Fire of 1901, the Timucua who met the first ships, Henry Flagler's Florida empire, the siege of Castillo de San Marcos, and Fort Mose — the first legally free Black settlement in what became the United States.

The stories

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  1. 1
    Jacksonville, Florida

    Jacksonville's Great Fire of 1901

  2. 2
    Jacksonville, Florida

    The Acosta Bridge's Modern Span

  3. 3
    Jacksonville, Florida

    The St. Johns River Trade

  4. 4
    Jacksonville, Florida

    The Timucua of Northeast Florida

  5. 5
    Jacksonville, Florida

    The Jacksonville Jewish Center

  6. 6
    Jacksonville, Florida

    The History of Bayard

  7. 7
    Saint Johns, Florida

    Henry Flagler's Florida Empire Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  8. 8
    St. Augustine, Florida

    Henry Flagler's Florida Empire Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  9. 9
    St. Augustine, Florida

    Henry Flagler's Florida Empire Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  10. 10
    St. Augustine, Florida

    The Siege of Castillo de San Marcos

  11. 11
    St. Augustine, Florida

    Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine

  12. 12
    St. Augustine, Florida

    The First Free Black Settlement

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.