Moving to Jacksonville | Mandarin Neighborhood Tour
Are you thinking about moving to Florida? Have you thought about the neighborhood of Mandarin in Jacksonville? Hi, I'm Sarah Schwartz, a local realtor in Northeast Florida and I'm going to show you around this quiet, scenic, nature-filled, food galore, riverfront neighborhood in south Jacksonville. Named after the mandarin orange in 1830, this neighborhood lies just east of the St. Johns River in between greater Jacksonville's I-295 loop and Julington Creek. Mandarin was once the home of famous author Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, famous painter Lee Adams and Alan Collins from the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. In the early 1800's Mandarin housed one of the most important river ports in Florida, known for shipping oranges. Citrus used to grow well in this area until the great freezes in the late 1800's. Today, Mandarin is characterized by its magnificent oak trees which hang dramatically beside Spanish moss and its breathtaking views of the St...