St. Augustine

Petunia Pig4B

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,

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

Oldest schoolhouse

built some time before 1788

held to the ground with a heavy chain designed to withstand high winds.

see rare books

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)

10 Facts About St. AugustineOldest 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

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.