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Where is St. Augustine? Pedro Menendez de Aviles established America's oldest city site of the Timucuan Indian village of Seloy founded forty-two years before the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia,
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Castillo de San Marcos Castillo is the Spanish word for "castle." actual building began on October 2, 1672 built of large blocks of a kind of rock called coquina
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Oldest schoolhouse built some time before 1788 held to the ground with a heavy chain designed to withstand high winds. see rare books
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2 April 1513- possession of the land named "Pascua de Florida" ( Feast of Flowers) because they first spotted land on Palm Sunday Ponce de León attacked by a tribe of Calusa injured by a poisoned arrow tomb is in the cathedral in Old San Juan permission to settle Island of Bimini and Island of Florida, ( Florida was thought to be an island)
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10 Facts About St. Augustine Oldest house in the US, located on St. Francis Street. Fountain of Youth located –Ponce de Leon was looking for it Bridge of Lions- way to Anastasia Island city gates lead to the old town via George Street Matanzas River- where the French first got stuck
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Ponce de Leon Hotel built by Henry Flagler- became Flagler College Treasury Street,- the narrowest street in U.S. Memorial Presbyterian church- built in 1 year ((Flagler buried there) Spanish governor's mansion erected in 1598. Fort Mose was the first free black settlement in the Americas.
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