The Nassau Board of County Commissioners has made historic American Beach’s conversion from septic tanks to general sewer a priority and they’re lobbying the state government for financial aid.
“I was retained by the Board of County Commissioners to assist with working with our
The Nassau Board of County Commissioners has made historic American Beach’s conversion from septic tanks to general sewer a priority and they’re lobbying the state government for financial aid.
“I was retained by the Board of County Commissioners to assist with working with our legislative delegation and with our legislature, with the governor’s office and the Department of Environmental Protection to see what we could do to help locate some opportunities to help finance and to help pay for the septic tank to sewer conversion project at American Beach,” said Mark Anderson, Lobbyist for the Nassau County Board of Commissioners.
American Beach is a small historic beach community on Amelia Island, Northeast of Jacksonville and South of Fernandina Beach.
In 1935, 33 acres of shorefront property on Amelia Island, in the area now known as American Beach, was purchased by a black-owned Jacksonville business called Afro-American Life Insurance Company, also known as “the Afro.” The company’s president, A. L. Lewis, invited employees to use the beach and hosted company events there.
The company made two subsequent land acquisitions, expanding the community’s size to 216 acres.
In 1940 the Afro offered unsold building