Neptune Beach

The City of Neptune Beach is primarily a small residential community of about 8,000 residents bounded by the City of Atlantic Beach to the north and the City of Jacksonville Beach to the south.

The primary focus of the community, which covers only about 2.5 square miles, is to protect the residential nature of the city and to maintain its high quality of life through strict growth management standards.

The name Neptune Beach has origins dating back to the year 1922, when local resident Dan Wheeler built his own train station next to his home and named it Neptune. Wheeler had been informed by the railroad company that if he built a station, the existing train service in the area would be required to stop. The construction of the station eliminated Wheeler having to walk to Mayport to take the train to work in Jacksonville. (The station was located where the Ocean One Hotel http://www.oneoceanresort.com/home.aspx is now located.)

The area had been part of Jacksonville Beach until a local tax revolt of 1931. On August 11 of that year, the residents of Neptune voted 113 to 31 to secede from Jacksonville Beach and incorporate the City of Neptune Beach.

Today, Neptune Beach offers primarily single-family living - houses along with a few condominiums and townhome developments. The area stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway - providing a wide range of environments from ocean front living to the more secluded marshlands adjacent to the Waterway.

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