A report on Jacksonville, Florida and Ray Charles

Charles in the 1960s

Charles in 1968

Replica of Jean Ribault's column claiming Florida for France in 1562

Charles in 1971

Charles meeting with President Richard Nixon, 1972 (photo by Oliver F. Atkins)

Northeast Florida showing Cow Ford (center) from Bernard Romans' 1776 map of Florida

Charles at the 2003 Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of his last public performances

Section of a light battery by the St. Johns River during the Civil War

Quincy Jones worked with Ray Charles.

Ruins of the courthouse and armory from the Great Fire of 1901

Star honoring Charles on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6777 Hollywood Boulevard

Downtown Jacksonville in 1914

Statue by Andy Davis in Ray Charles Plaza in Albany, Georgia

Crowd gathered for a campaign speech from Richard Nixon in Hemming Park, in October 1960

News of Jacksonville's consolidation from The Florida Times-Union

Friendship Fountain and view of downtown Jacksonville in 1982

Satellite photo of Jacksonville

Kingsley Plantation, located within the Timucuan Preserve

Map of racial distribution in Jacksonville, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people:

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, built in 1887, is one of Jacksonville's oldest churches.

CSX Transportation Building serves as headquarters for CSX Corporation.

Bank of America Tower on Laura Street

Container ship at Port of Jacksonville

The Florida Times-Union Building

Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at Naval Air Station Jacksonville

USS Bataan (LHD-5) at Naval Station Mayport

Gator Bowl Stadium, now TIAA Bank Field, where the annual Gator Bowl has taken place since 1946

Hemming Park hosts a variety of cultural events throughout the year.

Motion picture scene at Gaumont Studios, 1910

Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens

Museum of Science and History

The XX performing at the Florida Theatre

The Star-Spangled Banner performed before a Jacksonville Jaguars game at TIAA Bank Field.

St. James Building, currently housing Jacksonville City Hall

Lenny Curry, the current Mayor of Jacksonville

Duval County Public Schools headquarters

Jacksonville Main Library

The Dames Point Bridge (officially the Napoleon Bonaparte Broward Bridge) is a cable-stayed bridge over the St. Johns River. Construction began in 1985 and was completed in 1989.

Jacksonville Skyway

CSX 5508 ready to put office car on Silver Meteor

Jacksonville International Airport

JEA headquarters in downtown Jacksonville

Landing pad at Baptist Medical Center Downtown

Laura Street Trio (1902-1912)

The Carling (1925)

11 East Forsyth (1926)

Eight Forty One (1955)

Riverplace Tower (1967)

Wells Fargo Center (1974)

TIAA Bank Center (1983)

Bank of America Tower (1990)

Eastside and Arlington

Riverside and Avondale

Tallulah-North Shore

University of North Florida

Jacksonville University

Florida State College at Jacksonville

Florida Coastal School of Law

Edward Waters College

I-95 passing by downtown Jacksonville

Fuller Warren Bridge

Dames Point Bridge

After leaving school, Charles moved to Jacksonville to live with Charles Wayne Powell, who had been friends with his late mother.

- Ray Charles

After his mother died when he was 15, Ray Charles lived with friends of his mother while he played piano at the Ritz for a year, before moving on to fame and fortune.

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St. Augustine, Florida

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City in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

City in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

St. Augustine in 1891 from the former San Marco Hotel, Spanish St. on left, Huguenot Cemetery lower left corner, Cordova St. on right

Replicas of the Medici lions of Florence, Italy at the approach to the Bridge of Lions donated by Andrew Anderson

Slave Market, St. Augustine, Florida in 1886

View of St. Augustine from the top of the lighthouse on Anastasia Island

Major roadways, St. Augustine and vicinity

Ray Charles Center and the Theodore Johnson Center, at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind

United States Senator David Levy Yulee

Author Zora Neale Hurston

Bell tower on northeast bastion of the Castillo de San Marcos

North bastions and wall of the Castillo, looking eastward toward Anastasia Island

Seawall south of the Castillo

The city gates of St. Augustine, built in 1808, part of the much older Cubo Line

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Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at Mission Nombre de Dios

Statue of Ponce de León

Memorial Presbyterian Church

The former Hotel Alcazar now houses the Lightner Museum and City Hall

Bridge of Lions, looking eastward to Anastasia Island

Tolomato Cemetery

In 1565, however, the Spanish decided to destroy the French outpost of Fort Caroline, located in what is now Jacksonville.

Ray Charles, pianist, singer, composer