From Jacksonville’s first zoo to the street cars on Pearl Street, Springfield holds unique River City history

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – If you’re out at Klutho Park in Springfield, you might notice a modern-style giraffe statue overlooking the green spaces.

It’s there to mark the site of Jacksonville’s first zoo, which was built in the early 1900s.

It was called the Municipal Zoo, and it opened after a fawn was gifted to the city…