JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Once the Jacksonville's northern border along the Trout River, North Shore is a quiet enclave of tranquility that has stood the test of time.
North Shore is one of the few early 20th century neighborhoods of the pre-consolidated city that isn't a streetcar suburb. Anticipating future residential growth, what would become North Shore was platted by Jeremiah Fallausbee as Tallulah in 1879. An American Indian name, meaning "leaping water", Fallausbee's plat came the same year as the first plat of neighboring Panama Park and a year before the Fernandina & Jacksonville (F&J) Railroad established its Panama Park depot within walking distance of Tallulah. Fallausbee's dreams failed to materialize as a Yellow Fever epidemic during the 1880s actually caused the city's population to decline.
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After the Great Fire of 1901, Jacksonville became a booming metropolis, causing growth to expand north of downtown and Springfield. As a result, North Shore was platted in 1915 on a peninsula bounded by the Trout River, Moncrief Creek and Rolliston Creek. Annexed into Jacksonville in 1925, the neighborhood developed as a place for the city's growing middle-class population prior to World War II.
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