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History · Crescent Beach

Crescent Beach’s post office opened in 1904, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Center. Most of Crescent Beach was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1990 on.

1904first post office
1on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
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Quick answers

How Crescent Beach began

When was Crescent Beach founded?

1904

The Crescent Beach post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 844122 years
Founding year: the first Crescent Beach post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Crescent Beach’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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Start Crescent Beach’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crescent Beach’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story so far

Crescent Beach, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Crescent Beach yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Crescent Beach is an unincorporated census-designated place in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. The population was 844 at the 2020 census, down from 931 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1904. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 931 to 844 (-9%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Crescent Beach, 1904 to 1990

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1904Post officeThe Crescent Beach post office opens
  3. 1936Post officeThe Crescent Beach post office closes
  4. 1990In the archiveSandy's Bar-B-Q
By decade

Crescent Beach, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1990s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1990s2 items
Sandy's Bar-B-Q1990Sandy's Bar-B-QSandy's Bar-B-Q1990Sandy's Bar-B-Q
Today4 recent
Crescent Beach, Florida2019Crescent Beach, FloridaCresent Beach0012006Cresent Beach001Beach0152006Beach015FLMap-doton-CrescentBeach2004FLMap-doton-CrescentBeach
On the National Register

1 historic place in Crescent Beach

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
2008
Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Center
Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Center
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

NPS Rustic1
Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor CenterNPS Rustic

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Crescent Beach

Nobody well known was born in Crescent Beach itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Joseph StilwellUnited States Army general · b. 1883
Eddie JohnsonAmerican soccer player · b. 1984
Michelle McCoolAmerican professional wrestler · b. 1980
Augusta SavageAmerican sculptor · b. 1892
Edmund Kirby SmithConfederate States Army general · b. 1824
A. Philip RandolphBlack American civil rights activist, labor uni… · b. 1889
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and old corners

Crescent Beach had its own post office from 1904 to 1936.

Crescent Beach
1904–1936
19001960today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Beachwood Trailer Park

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Butler BeachIts storyD

Questions about Crescent Beach’s history

What year was Crescent Beach founded?

The Crescent Beach post office opened in 1904, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Crescent Beach?

One place: the Fort Matanzas NM Headquarters and Visitor Center (listed 2008).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.