Parlor City (Green Cove Springs, Florida nickname)

Binghamton, New York, has been called the “Parlor City (of the Southern Tier)” since 1873. “Parlor City” means a city that is refined, with beautiful homes, gardens and cultural amenities.
 
Green Cove Springs has also called itself a “Parlor City.” “GREEN COVE SPRINGS is the parlor city” was printed in The Florida TImes-Union (Jacksonville, FL) on January 25, 1890. “The ‘Parlor CIty’ of Florida” was cited in the Boston (MA) Evening Transcript on January 17, 1893. ““The Parlor City of the South” was cited in the The Evening Metropolis (Jacksonville, FL) on October 22, 1912.
 
Monroe, Louisiana, was called the “Parlor City (of Louisiana)” in 1890. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, began to be called the “Parlor City (of Iowa)” in 1890 and 1891. Bluffton, Indiana, has been called the “Parlor City” since at least 1900.
 
   
Wikipedia: Green Cove Springs, Florida
Green Cove Springs is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Florida, United States. Green Cove Springs is a part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,786 at the 2020 census, up from 6,908 at the 2010 census.
 
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25 January 1890, The Florida TImes-Union (Jacksonville, FL), “Current Comment,” pg. 4, col. 3:
GREEN COVE SPRINGS is the parlor city; ...
 
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3 July 1890, Fort Myers (FL) Press, pg. 5, col. 4:
If by any chance, accident, or otherwise, the legislature should fail to locate the capital at the Parlor City (Green Cove Springs—ed.) then we shall use our influence for Gainesville as the next best place.
 
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17 January 1893, Boston (MA) Evening Transcript, pg. 6, col. 6:
Hotel St. Elmo is beautifully situated on the west bank of the clebrated St. Johns River, at Green Cove Springs, Florida, better known as the “Parlor City” of Florida, on account of its cleanliness and beauty.
 
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10 October 1895, Chicago (IL) Tribune, “Winter Resorts,” pg. 11, col. 6 ad:
The
Parlor City
OF FLORIDA.
Green Cove Springs
 
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22 October 1912, The Evening Metropolis (Jacksonville, FL), pg. 16, col. 6:
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, ACTIVE,
HEALTHY AND ATTRACTIVE,
PARLOR CITY OF THE SOUTH
The Metropolis Bureau, Green Cove Springs, Oct. 22.—“Everybody is doing it” at Green Cove Springs. They began Monday under the auspices of the Village Improvement Association, and the most though cleaning up about town is now taking place, and soon the former name, “The Parlor City of the South,” will be hearlded throughout the land.
 
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10 June 1982, Kansas City (MO) Star, “Springs brought life to Dixie sap” by the Associated Press, pg. 4A, col. 1:
Regular steamboast service from Jacksonville brough elite 19th century visitors on the 25-mile trip down the St. Johns River in Green Cove, which boasted a half dozen or more major hotels, and was known as “The Parlor City of the South.”
 
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10 March 1993, The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL), “Green Cove Springs” Historic preservation on track” by Marjorie Moss, Clay County Community News, pg. 3, col. 1:
The 1870s saw the city develop a major steamboat port on the St. Johns River encouraging tourists to flock to the “Parlor City of the South” with its 12 hotels and fancy orchestras.
 
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4 December 2004, The Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL), “Green Cove at a glance,” The Clay County Line sec., pg. 11, col. 2:
Nicknames: Parlor City, Saratoga of the South, Little Detroit