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St. Augustine. Petunia Pig 4B. Where is St. Augustine?. site of the Timucuan Indian village of Seloy. founded forty-two years before the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, . Pedro Menendez de Aviles established America's oldest city . Castillo de San Marcos.
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St. Augustine Petunia Pig 4B
Where is St. Augustine? site of the Timucuan Indian village of Seloy founded forty-two years before the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, Pedro Menendez de Aviles established America's oldest city
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 see rare books held to the ground with a heavy chain designed to withstand high winds.
Ponce de León 2 April 1513- possession of the land named "Pascua de Florida" ( Feast of Flowers) because they first spotted land on Palm Sunday permission to settle Island of Bimini and Island of Florida, ( Florida was thought to be an island) attacked by a tribe of Calusa tomb is in the cathedral in Old San Juan injured by a poisoned arrow
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
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.