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The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
The St. Augustine Light Station is a privately maintained aid to navigation and an active, working lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida. [ 2] The current lighthouse stands at the north end of Anastasia Island and was built between 1871 and 1874. The tower is the second lighthouse tower in St. Augustine, the first being lit officially by the ...
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 ...
2B. Retrieved September 8, 2021 – via Newspapers.com. after checking her records, city Clerk Elaine Baker dug up two more sister cities -- Taipei, Taiwan, and Santa Marta, Colombia...Herzila was first proposed as a sister city in 1986, but Baker said, she somehow was proclaimed a brother city in a 1988 resolution. ...
Deirdre “Didi” O’Hearn, who worked as an executive at A&E Networks, died Aug. 12 in hospice care in St. Augustine, Florida of lung cancer. She was 63. O’Hearn, a longtime cable executive ...
15 April 1970 [4] Designated NHLDCP. 15 April 1970. The Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine ( Spanish: Catedral basílica de San Agustín) is a historic cathedral in St. Augustine, Florida, and the seat of the Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine. It is located at 38 Cathedral Place between Charlotte and St. George Streets.