8. Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. operates out of a warehouse that was constructed in 1924 to serve as a bottling factory for the Orange Crush Bottling Company. Orange Crush was founded in 1911 by Clayton J. Howell, who partnered with Neil C. Ward. Ward perfected the process of blending ingredients to create the exclusive formula that yielded the zesty, all-natural orange flavor of Orange Crush. Originally, Orange Crush included orange pulp in the bottles, giving it a “fresh squeezed” illusion even though the pulp was added rather than remaining from squeezed oranges. In 1942, the Edison Avenue facility was rebranded as the Seven-Up Bottling Company/Duval Bottling Company. Seven Up operated out of this Edison Avenue building until 1969. Seven Up eventually merged with Dr. Pepper in 1988.

9. Narrow streets are a unique feature of West Lewisville and a remnant of a 19th century community developed well before the age of the automobile. While most the neighborhood’s streets are roughly 33 feet in width, many remain that are as narrow as 20 feet in right-of-way width.

10. Looking west down Clemente Drive with the Chamblin Bookmine warehouse on the left and the Macedonia Primitive Baptist Church on the right.

11. Once a popular active neighborhood park, Forest Park and its community center are closed to all activity. The 4.4-acre green space is an EPA superfund site. From 1910 until the 1960s, the City of Jacksonville operated the Forest Street Incinerator on portions of this property and a now closed elementary school next door. Here, the City of Jacksonville disposed of combustion ash, clinker and ash residues for five decades. After the incinerator ceased operations, this park and a neighborhood elementary school were built in its place.

12. The City of Jacksonville’s Animal Care & Protective Services shelter opened at the intersection of Forest and Edison Streets in 2009.

13. Developed as a 19th century working class African-American community, modest frame residential structures are the dominant housing style in West Lewisville.

14. The remains of an early 20th century example of a bungalow court can be found on Wade Drive in West Lewisville. This development dates back to 1924 and featured a dozen bungalows each of roughly 770 square feet in size. Wade Drive stands as a reminder of what was once a dense, urban, working class neighborhood that once contributed to a thriving early 20th century urban core.