Video Histories

Beaches Museum produces video shorts of local history topics of the North Florida beaches area. The content has been sourced from the Beaches Museum photograph collection, previous Museum exhibits and articles, letters, documents and stories that are a part of the Museum archives collection.  

Enjoy Beaches Welcome Day Parades of the past with this fun photographic journey through the years.
Did you know there was a brothel at the beach? Cora Crane, Jacksonville’s most notorious madam, opened a beach annex in Pablo Beach. What happened next?
The first permanent settlers of the Jacksonville Beach area were William & Eleanor Scull. Learn about their adventures, and why this area was first called Ruby Beach.
 Learn all about the ups and downs and spin-arounds of the iconic Jacksonville Beach roller coasters!
Fishing was not only a commercial mainstay of beach economy, it was- – and still is — a beloved past time.
Enjoy this trip down the aisle with beach brides and grooms!
Neptune Beach seceded from Jacksonville Beach on August 11, 1931. What is the story behind the secession?


Take a tour of Mayport, Atlantic Beach, Jacksonville Beach and Ponte Vedra with the American flag.




Beaches Museum
381 Beach Boulevard
Jacksonville Beach, Florida 32250