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Atlantic Beach is a city in
Duval County,
Florida,
United States. When the majority of
communities in Duval County consolidated with
Jacksonville,
Florida in
1968, Atlantic Beach, along with
Jacksonville Beach,
Neptune Beach, Ponte Vedra Beach and
Baldwin, Florida, remained
quasi-independent. Like the other towns, it maintains its own
municipal government but its residents vote in the Jacksonville
mayoral election and have representation on the Jacksonville city
council. The population was 13,368 at the 2000 census. According to
the U.S Census estimates of 2005, the city had a population of 13,436.
Atlantic Beach took off around
1900 after
Henry Flagler built the
Mayport stop of his
East Coast Railway to the north of
the town. The Atlantic Beach Corporation bought and developed most of
the land in what is now Atlantic Beach in
1915, and the town was incorporated
in
1926. Atlantic Beach is part of
the
Jacksonville Beaches community.
Information courtesy of
Wikipedia.org.
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