Our commitment is to preserve the history, heritage, culture, and physical character of Jacksonville's Historic Eastside, known as OUTEAST to generations of residents. Established after the Civil War, the Eastside grew into a thriving African American working-class community and remains the last historic neighborhood directly bordering Downtown Jacksonville. Much of the neighborhood's defining development occurred between 1868 and 1947, leaving a distinctive collection of frame-vernacular homes, bungalows, churches, businesses, and community landmarks. For us, preservation is not simply about saving old buildings. It is about protecting the people, places, stories, culture, and legacy that make OUTEAST irreplaceable.

The heritage trail includes murals, markers, and public art projects that depict the history of Eastside residents, patrons and historians. The trails will help ease the inevitable tensions of gentrification by visually recording stories of the Eastside, building pride in the community transitions so that newcomers understand this place that they now find so attractive to live.

A visual archive in the streets — so newcomers learn the names that made this ground valuable long before it was desirable.