Nathan Bedford Forrest High School

Nathan Bedford Forrest High School is a public high school in the Duval County School District located on the Westside of Jacksonville, Florida. Forrest opened in 1959 in Jacksonville's Wesconnett neighborhood, at the site of present-day J. E. B. Stuart Middle School. Forrest moved to its current location on Firestone Road in 1966. The facility on Firestone Road was a duplicate of the design used for Samuel W. Wolfson High School, the work of Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick. The school is named for Confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and later became and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. As of 2011, it is only one of two high...