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12-62500 [4] GNIS feature ID. 0308101 [3] Website. City of St. Augustine. St. Augustine ( / ˈɔːɡəstiːn / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville. The city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
Incorporated as St. Augustine's Normal School and Collegiate Institute on July 19, 1867, St. Augustine's opened on January 13, 1868, with Jacob Brinton Smith as its first principal. The first classes were held at the state fairgrounds in a former army barrack donated by Major General Oliver Otis Howard , the head of the Freedmen's Bureau . [5]
History of Florida. St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the continental United States, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The Spanish Crown issued an asiento to Menéndez, signed by King Philip II on March 20, 1565, granting him various titles, including that ...
Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.
Lincolnville Historic District (formerly known as Little Africa) is a neighborhood in St. Augustine, Florida established by freedmen following the American Civil War and located on the southwest peninsula of the "nation's oldest city." It was designated as an historic district in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
By 1573, the only remaining presidios in Florida were at St. Augustine and Santa Elena on Paris Island, South Carolina. Santa Elena was abandoned in 1587, leaving St. Augustine as the only sizeable Spanish settlement in La Florida. Modern map showing the approximate location of Spanish missions and the connecting Camino Real across northern Florida
Fort Mose, originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose [3] (Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose), [4] and later as Fort Mose, [2] or alternatively, Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa, [5] is a former Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1738, the governor of Spanish Florida, Manuel de Montiano, had the fort established as a free black ...
King's Road (Florida) The King's Road was a road built by the British in their colony of East Florida. It stretched from the St. Marys River, the border between East Florida and Georgia, to south of New Smyrna, and was mostly completed by 1773. [1] The King's Road originated as an Indian trail on a high sand ridge paralleling the Atlantic coast.