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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
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 ...
A ship in the 1733 Spanish Plate Fleet that was wrecked along the Florida Keys. A steamship that ran aground off Key Largo. [1] [16] A patrol vessel that was wrecked at Key West in the 1919 Florida Keys hurricane . A Diver -class rescue and salvage ship that sank off Key West as an artificial reef in 185 fsw.
Fort Mose. / 29.92778°N 81.32528°W / 29.92778; -81.32528. 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 ...
October 15, 1924. The Castillo de San Marcos ( Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St. Augustine, Florida . It was designed by the Spanish engineer Ignacio Daza, with construction beginning in 1672, 107 years after the city's founding ...
Fort Chokonikla (also Fort Chokkonickla and Fort Chokhonikla, now part of Paynes Creek Historic State Park) Fort Christian - Second Seminole War Fort. p. 190. Fort Christmas – one in a series of four small, short lived forts built along the St. Johns River during the Seminole Wars. These forts were used to garrison troops and protect supplies ...
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.
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.