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The Jessie Ball duPont Fund, "Florida's leading national foundation", [2] is a charitable foundation that issues grants to organizations that received support from Jessie Ball duPont between 1960 and 1964. When she died on September 26, 1970, the bulk of her estimated $42 million estate, one of the largest in Florida history, became the Jessie ...
Jessie Dew Ball was born on January 20, 1884, in Hardings, Northumberland County, Virginia to Lalla Gresham and Thomas Ball, a Confederate Civil War veteran and attorney. Aside from a year in Austin, Texas and a year in Baltimore, Maryland, Ball grew up in Virginia. She earned a Life Certificate from the Farmville (Virginia) Normal School and ...
The Nemours Foundation is a non-profit organization in Jacksonville, Florida, created through the last will and testament of philanthropist Alfred I. du Pont by his widow Jessie Ball duPont in 1936, and dedicated to improving the health of children. [1] The Foundation operates Nemours Children’s Health, among America’s largest multi-state ...
Jessie Ball duPont Center. / 30.32731; -81.65682. The Jessie Ball duPont Center is a nonprofit complex in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The building served as the main branch of the Jacksonville Public Library system from 1965 until 2005, when it was replaced by the current facility.
A Jacksonville landmark for 19 years, Arden's Kountry Kafe — known throughout Northeast Florida for its Southern comfort food buffet — shut its doors permanently on Jan. 4, 2021.
Wolfson Children's Hospital. / 30.315207; -81.663234. Wolfson Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, non-profit, pediatric acute care hospital located in Jacksonville, Florida. [1] It has 281 beds and is the primary pediatric teaching affiliate of the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville and the Florida branch of the Mayo ...
Hubbard House. Jacksonville Arboretum & Gardens. Jacksonville Civic Council. Jacksonville Urban League. MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation. Nemours Children's Clinic. Otis Smith Kids Foundation. Second Harvest North Florida. St. Vincent's HealthCare.
Epping Forest (Jacksonville) / 30.24833°N 81.64056°W / 30.24833; -81.64056. The Epping Forest (also known as the Alfred I. duPont Estate) was a historic, 58-acre (230,000 m 2) estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third ...