| HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE by Gil Wilson |
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| Welcome to the Largest St. Augustine History site on the Web. This site is a full history of the City of St. Augustine including many links to books and other web resources. Dr. Bronson also maintains the largest on-line selection of source materials for St. Augustine. Of course, no site about St. Augustine would be complete without pictures of our beautiful City. Please use the Google Search to find the thousands of names and supplemental pages for the history. Outline of St. Augustine History Subject Index 1st Spanish Period 1565 - 1600 The Ephebic Oath 1st Spanish Period - The beginnings of the City of Stone Juan Ponce de Leon Voyages of Discovery The French Founding of the City Saint Augustine Landing of Menendez Pedro Menendez removes French 1566 Pedro Menendez sends the Juan Pardo Expedition to Explore Florida The Jesuits arrive The First Recorded Medical Practitioner Arrives The Threat of the English Begins Sir Francis Drake St. Augustine Hunts for the Colony of Roanoke The Franciscans The First Recorded Baptism Nombre de Dios Nuestra Senora de La Soledad The Market Place Built Destruction and Hardships St. Augustine's 1st Spanish Period 1600 -1700 Destruction and Hardships Slave Escape from St. Augustine Founding of the Popham Colony Founding of Jamestown Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche Map of Florida Robert Searles Founding of Carolina Building of the Castillo The Watchtower on Anastasia Island Military Duty More Destruction Governor Constructs fort at the St. Marks and Wakulla Rivers Company of Free Mulatto and Black Militia Nicholas Grammont Attacks on Carolina 1st Period Spanish Florida 1700-1763 Attack by Carolina Gonzalez-Alvarez House Fernandez-Llambias House The Walled City Bishop Visits Francisco Menendez (part 1) Nuestra Senora de la Leche Founding of Georgia Capture of Picolata by Georgians and 1740 Attack on St. Augustine Francisco Menendez (part 2) Oglethorpe's Return St. Augustine in 1759 More houses End of Spanish Rule British Period 1763-1784 The British East Florida Seal Map of the New Colonies (East and West Florida) Arrival of the British Proclamation of 1763 Departure of the Spanish Arrival of Governor James Grant Colony Governance Rev. John Forbes Ordnance Appointments The Builders William Stork Military Totals Settlers Wanted Dependence The Postman Schoolmasters Salaries Bartram Visits William Gerard de Brahm The Minorcians British Military John Moultrie Patrick Tonyn Augustin Prevost Bakery American Revolution The Florida East Coast Rangers Revolutionary War Prisoners More Prisoners The Tolomato Cemetery East Florida Assembly End of British Rule 2nd Spanish Period 1784-1821 John Cruden Governor Vizente Manuel de Zespedes An Opportunity of Freedom - Zespedes Proclamation of July 26, 1784 Thomas Bell - Pirates Return of Slaves Tovar House Father Thomas Hassett The Cathedral Don Manuel Solana House Juan Nepomucceno de Quesada and the Rebellion of 1795 Chapel in the Castillo Runaway Slaves Enrique White and General Jorge Biassou Father Felix Varela Geronimo Alvarez and the 1812 Constitution Monument Father Miguel O'Reilly City Gate Patriot Rebellion Constitucion Monument Jose Coppinger Green Flag Republic Catholic Church Carnival 1819 Description of St. Augustine A Posey Dance More Houses Onis-Adams Treaty Transfer Territorial Period 1821-1845 City Council Joseph Lee Smith Appointed Judge Joseph Hernandez Treaty with the Seminoles Slavery Lighthouse Presbyterian Church Bethel Methodist Episcopal (Trinity United Methodist) Trinity Episcopal Church Hurricane Business in St. Augustine 1827 St. Augustine 1827 Tax Roll Houses of St. Augustine Ralph Waldo Emerson's Poem Ralph Waldo Emerson Encounters Church and a Slave Sale Newspaper Extracts Seawall From Boarding Houses to Hotels John James Audubon Tours Florida Slaves and the Seminoles Seminole Wars Public Education How to Get to St. Augustine 1835 David Levy Yulee Charles Downing Tax Records 1837 St. Augustine Patrols Wanted to Purchase How to Get to St. Augustine 1841 St. Augustine, April 2, 1841 Dade Monument Education Struggles on The Escape of Andrew Gue Slave Sale Rev. Whipple Records his St. Augustine Mardi Gras Fort Marion Work Statehood 1845-1861 A Great Country Railroad Route Statehood Fire Notes on the Bar Planters Hotel Sale Public Education After Statehood Troop Movements Mexican War A Hotel Tradition Begins - The Magnolia Hotel Carnival 1847 Fire Engine Mexican War Death March 25, 1848 Shipwreck Description of Sherivaree - 1848 September 25, 1848 Hurricane 2nd Regiment U. S. Artillery The Florida House How to get to St. Augustine 1848 Soldiers Passing Through March 6, 1849 Mardi Gras Indian Troubles Light House Gets Safety Equipment City Patrols A Day in the Life of St. Augustine July, 1850 Churches in St. Augustine Prewar Slavery Celebration of the Fourth of July at St. Augustine 1851 Death of Father Varella - Feb 1853 1851 Slave Escape Unlawful Assembly July 13, 1854 City Council Records Trinity Episcopal Receives a Special Temporary Rector City Taxes in 1855 (Costs) Tax Records 1855 School Built Getting to St. Augustine 1856 Putnam Appointed Judge Complaint of Joseph Manucy against William Lang for indecent Language Complaint against William Pomer, Peter Pellicer, T. Ferrieora Shipwrecks Fugitive Slaves Kidnapping (September 1858) Shinney (Street hockey) Coastal Survey New Railroad Deaths Private Schools And Union Soldiers are Born Cornelia Leslie Miss Mather's School The St. Augustine Examiner Sat Oct 27, 1860 The Impending Crisis The St. Augustine Examiner Dec 1, 1860 - The Independent Blues New Military Company The St. Augustine Examiner 29 December 1860 Another Year has Passed St. Augustine in the Civil War 1861-1865 St. Augustine Examiner, October 1860 City of St. Augustine vs Powell slave of P Lopez; Breaking jail City of St. Augustine vs Powell, slave of P Lope; Found without a pass Bishop Verot Leaving the Union The Ordinance of Succession St. Augustine Examiner, 19 Jan 1861 - The Revolution Progresses Capture of the Fort by the Confederates The Dana City of St. Augustine vs Lewis slave of B Olivero; Fast riding through the Streets City of St. Augustine vs Lawrence slave of Venancio Sanchez; Disturbing the Peace of the City City of St. Augustine vs Eleek (slave of Wm Nannau?) Caught by patrol after bell ringing Jefferson Davis Inaugural Address February 22, 1861 Lincoln's First Inaugural Address - March 4, 1861 Maj. E. Kirby Smith, Saint Augustine, Fla Commander of the Dept of the South Naval Blockade War (St. Augustine Examiner), 20 April, 1861 U. S. Military Department St. Johns Rail Road (St. Augustine Examiner) 4 May 1861 St. Augustine Units Mustered Ladies Aid Society (St. Augustine Examiner) June 8, 1862 City of St. Augustine vs Lawrence slave of Venancio Sanchez; Disturbing peace of the City City of St. Augustine (St. Augustine Examiner) Saturday June 29, 1862 2 Quarter 1862 Financial Post Office Notice (St. Augustine Examiner) Sinking of the Jeff Davis The Lighthouse - Arnau's Coast Guard Blockage Port Royal Expedition The City of St. Augustine vs March a slave of G. R. Fairbanks Buckingham Smith Seeks Help TThe City of St. Augustine vs Lao, a slave of Antonio Alvarez Attack and Surrender of St. Augustine Official Report Add the US Marines to the 4th New Hampshire Regt St. Augustine Puts City Marshal on Salary Report of General H. G. Wright Abraham Lincoln's Appreciation U. S. Military Department Confederate Order to Evacuate the Troops from St. Augustine Hdqrs. Prov. Forces, Dept East and Middle Fl., Tallahassee, March 19 1862 Weekly Columbus (GA) Enquirer, April 1 1862 St. Augustine in the Civil War p2 First Things Provost Duties (See Office of Provost Marshal) Oath Pass Local Reply Bell Promoted (March 18, 1862 The Women Were the Most Difficult Col Bell's Order No Reinforcements Citizens Defend Yourselves Arrests Warning Letter Capture of the (Empire City) British Empire Supplies Arriving The St. Augustine Examiner Returns (April 9, 1862) The World Changes St. Augustine is Placed Under Martial Law Report to Brig. Gen. H. W. Benham What was Martial Law in the Civil War St. Johns River Yankee Outrages and Thefts on the St. Johns River Regimental Band (Leander Harris) University of New Hampshire, May 11, 1862 Deportation Order Troop Life Lots of Hazards (Sergeant Abner L. Knowlton) June 13, 1862 The Case of William Keyes People Removed June 25, 1862 Bishop Verot Leaves Savannah to move 7 Sisters of Mercy to Columbus, Georgia Taking Oath Fourth of July, 1862 Philip Fraser appointed to U. S. District Court, Northern District of Florida Staudenmayer Removed Rumors of Attacks Col Bell and General Hunter have a conflict An Opinion of a 4th Regiment Soldier sent to The Farmers' Cabinet (a New England Newspaper) An Opinion of Col Bell Lieut Col. Gilman Sleeper The Picket Lines Union Deserters (Leander Harris) September 6, 1862 4th Regiment Leaves St. Augustine St. Augustine and the Civil War page 3 The 7th New Hampshire Takes Over (Regimental History) Benjamin Carr (from Little's Regimental History) Joe Manucy and Antonio Bravo (from Little's Regimental History) False Alarm (Regimental History) Expel or not to Expel Picket Duty Could be Hazardous (New Hampshire Sentinel) September 25, 1862 Another False Alarm (Regimental History - October 5) Troops view of the town (Calvin Shedd Papers) Meeting at the Presbyterian Church Accidents Yankee Atrocities in Florida (Charleston Mercury) 2nd Lieut Calvin Shields talks about St. Augustine (October 12, 1862) Captain Dickison's Account of October 1862 An Accidental Death (November 27, 1862) - Calvin Shedd Letters Schools for the Freedmen Deserters (Calvin Shedd December 5, 1862) Judge Putnam Returns (Calvin Shedd Dec 7, 1862) Deserters (Regimental History) Federal Court Marshals make Deserters (Calvin Shedd December 14, 1862) Col Putnam's Cavalry (White's Regimental History) Capture of Lieutenant Cate, Private Oscar F. French and Suttler Samuel Riddell More Recruits for the Colored Regiment Married - In the Cathedral at St. Augustine (The New South, January 17, 1863) Col. Buffington and family returned (New York Herald) Feb 27, 1863 More Banishments (Natchez Daily Courier), February 28, 1863 Attack on the Advanced Picket guard More on Skirmish More Union Deserters (Calvin Shedd) March 26, 1863 More on Mrs. Smith From Mrs. J. Smith St. Augustine in the Civil War page 4 The Government takes slow steps. General David Hunter and the Creation of the Regiment General Hunter Creates the First Black Regiment James D. Fesseden and the 1st South Carolina Regiment The First Black Soldiers Another view of the enforced enlistment In the Early Days fighting (The New York Herald) June 27, 1862 The Second Confiscation Act - An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for other Purposes. Hunters Letter to Stanton Order to Create Black Regiments Emancipation Proclamation Doboy river Georgia, Beaufort, SC, November 25, 1862 General Saxton's Proclamation Camp Saxton---Proclamation and Barbecue 1863 33rd USCT Regiments Raised Expedition to Florida (Letters from Beaufort During the Civil War) More Drafting (Letters from Beaufort During the Civil War) Abraham Lincoln Commends General Hunter on Jacksonville and USCT Troops More Drafting (Letters from Port Royal during the Civil War) Order Establishing the USCT Bureau Protection for African-American Soldiers Reorganizing the Regiments Consolidation and Name Change Response St. Augustine in the Civil War page 5 A Provost Marshall Report on Dr. Hiems and Stephen Bacon 7th Conn Volunteers From Mrs. J. Smith Savannah (GA Republican, June 12, 1863) Provost Marshall Administers Oath of Allegiance Deportations Celebration of the Battle of Bunker Hill (Regimental History) Population of St. Augustine 4th of July in St. Augustine The Case of the Montones 10 Conn to Morris Island 48th New York Volunteers Living in St. Augustine (Perry's Saints) Rebels About How the Freedmen Live (Commercial Advertiser) August 21, 1863 Recreation Order for St. Augustine Hospital Given (New York Herald) August 19, 1863 Dr. Seth Rogers and the Purpose of the New Hospital (Dr. Seth Rogers, Letters) Condition of the Townspeople (Brooklyn City News, Undated) Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Replace the 46th New York Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction Camp of the 10th Connecticut Volunteers Attack on the Wood Cutters First Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Joseph Remington appointed U. S. Marshal Headquarters, Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C., Jan. 31, 1864 Who were these freed slaves? Fundraising for a Chapel Tent for the Tenth (Hartford Daily Courant) Feb 2, 1864 Troops move to Picolata Arrival of Rev. Reynolds Withdraw from Picolata New Commander for St. Augustine ex-Senator Yulee (Harford Daily Curant 2/24/1864) A Military Hospital for St. Augustine Religious Services The Silent Comforter Structure of the Government in 1864 Capture of the Navy Tug Columbine St. Augustine in the Civil War page 6 Structure of the Government in 1864 First Baptist Church 17th Connecticut Almost coming home to St. Augustine Organizing Loyal Floridians (Hartford Daily Courant, 7-12-1864) New Commander for St. Augustine Report on the Captured 10th Soldiers (Hartford Daily Courant 11-29-1864) Getting the Courts Back Into Operation Judge Frasier Tries Again Esther Hill Hawks Visits St. Augustine Unlucky Regiment Department of South Response The New Commander Col. B. C. Tilghman, Third U. S. Colored Troops, St. Augustine, Fla Andersonville Thwarted Release Ad for Tax Sales - Ran in Northern papers Proclamation Closing the Port of St. Augustine - April 11, 1865 Armistice (April 23, 1865) Lincoln's Death Surrender of the Blues Response to Lincoln's Death Death of Mary Craft End of the War Confederates Surrender in Florida (May 17-20) High Ranking Visitors to Florida (May 18 and 19)] New Troops for St. Augustine (May 310 Post War and the Churches (September 1865) Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address St. Augustine in the Civil War page 7 St. Augustine's Confederate Soldiers General William Wing Loring General Edmond Kirby Smith General Stephen Vincent Benet General Edmund J. Davis General William Hardee (Old Reliable) Civil War Generals who moved to St. Augustine after the Civil War General John McAllister Schofield General Martin Davis Hardin African-American Education The Ex-Slaves Reconstruction in St. Augustine 1865-1877 Military order, Dec. 1, 1865 Pastor Father Aubril Rebuilding 7th Regiment Presidential Pardons Mayors of the Reconstruction Period Freedmen Bureau Schools Continue Getting to St. Augustine Lighthouse Relit Court in St. Augustine End of an Era St. Augustine Becomes Part of the World St. Mary's Academy Cobb House Military Rule Sisters of St. Joseph 1st Methodist Episcopal Church (South) Hastings formed Beginning of St. Johns County Public Schools Society of Benedict the Moor and the St. Augustine Benevolent Society for Catholics First African-American Voter Election St. Augustine in 1869 Hotel St. Augustine and the Beginning of the Hotel Industry Lincolnville and New St. Augustine Bishop Augustin Verot Buckingham Smith Destruction of the lunette William Van Dyke Confederate Civil War Monument Beginnings of the Oldest Drug Store H. W. Chatfield Post and John A. Logan GAR St. Paul AME How to Get to St. Augustine in 1873 Saint Ambrose Catholic Church Trinity Episcopal Gets a New Rector First Baptist Church Bethel Methodist Episcopal Sisters of St. Joseph Hold a Picnic Mount Pleasant African Methodist Episcopal Church Plains Indians stay at Fort Marion Indian Dick Hotels of St. Augustine Death of Dr. Oliver Bronson Bronson Cottage St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church Constance Fenimore Woolson Mather Perit Memorial Presbyterian Church St. Johns Carries Out a Clean final Reconstruction Election Post Reconstruction in St. Augustine 1877-1885 Catholic Schools paid by Public Schools Growth of the St. Johns County School System Edison's Family Comes to St. Augustine Earthquake General Sherman Tours 1st Methodist Episcopal Church (South) - Moultrie John Papino Communications Presidential Visits The 1880's Mt. Olive Baptist Church Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church (Grace United Methodist) Thomas Edison comes to St. Augustine Founding of the St. Augustine Historical Society Carnival 1883 Sherivarees Need a Place to Stay 1883 Restoration of the Castillo Fire Department The Florida School for the Deaf and Blind North City Baptist Church Organized Some Businesses in St. Augustine and the People who operated them Apache Indians Come to Fort Marion A Church Building on Wheels Flagler Construction Era 1885-1890 St. Augustine in 1885 Isaac Cruft Brings a Quality Hotel Experience to St Augustine the San Marco Hotel Villa Zorayda and Franklin Smith Florida School for the Deaf and Blind William G. Warden Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, Sunnyside Hotel The Ponce de Leon Hotel The 1887 Fire Pell Horse Fountain The Alcazar The Casa Monica Opening and Dedication of Grace Episcopal Methodist Church McGuire and McDonald, Dr. Anderson, and Osborne Seavey Seavey House (The Union General's House) Hotel Life Dying in St. Augustine Technical Innovations St. Augustine Fire Department Cordova Hotel Ashlar Lodge Begins 1888 Return of Carrie Semple Dr. F. F. Smith and Dr. Anderson Florida East Coast Railway Telephone Havana & St. Augustine Cigar Joe Perry exPresident Grover Cleveland Returns to the Ponce de Leon Frederick Douglass Memorial Presbyterian Built The Alicia Hospital Flagler Era 1890 to 1900 Saint James Baptist Church East Coast Hospital Dr. Alexander Graham Bell Visits St. Benedict the Moor St. Cyprian Protestant Episcopal Mission Thomas Hastings, Henry Flagler and the founding of the Town of Hastings Old Jail Flagler Buys an Orange Grove in San Mateo The St. Augustine Women's Exchange Founded Ancient City Baptist Tatler Magazine Steamer Transportation to St. Augustine W.C.T.U. D.A.R. Diego Union Church Formed (became Diego Baptist Church) Villa Flora Casa Amarylla Sons of Israel School System Ida Alice Shourds School at the turn of the century St. James Baptist Church The Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection Fountain The Last Pirate The Progressive Era to WWII 1900 - 1913 1900 St. Augustine Evening Record E Reynold's 1900 School Report St. Joseph's Academy Palm Valley Baptist Church Ponce de Leon Hotel Gets and Important Visitor --- Admiral George Dewey and Wife Casino Bowling Alley Cake Walks 1901-1902 State School Report Soldiers in the Philippines Shooting of Councilman John Pappino The Rebuilding of Trinity Episcopal Cordova becomes the Alcazar Annex Rural Schools On again/off again St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church Y.M.C.A. Marble Head Stones for National Cemetery Arrive Theodore Roosevelt Visits the Ponce de Leon St. Agnes' Mission Chapel Organized St. Johns Light and Power Company Lays Street Car Tracks The Film Industry Comes to St. Augustine Flagler Mausoleum Built Church of God Organized Y.M.C.A. Built Dr. Brown's Hospital Our Lady of Good Counsel Development and Progress on the East Coast Dawson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church Organized Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Organized Three Negro Funerals Orpheum Tonight Carcaba's Cigar Factory First Baptist Church of Hastings Organized Plaza Theatre Will Show Several Fine Films Tonight Gold Watch to be Given Away Orange Street School 1st Methodist Episcopal (South) - St. Augustine (Corner of Riberia and King) 1910 St. Augustine Record Newspaper Frank Genovar and the Cuban Connection The Town of Hastings 1910 First Baptist Church of Armstrong Organized Friendship Baptist Church Organized Grand opening of the Ponce de Leon Hotel in 1910 Taking Moving Pictures Interesting Pictures. St. Augustine is Scene of a Moving Picture Elopement Casino's Washington Day Dance Airplane Flights Health Department Canfield lays out the Town of Armstrong D. D. Corbette Becomes School Superintendent The New Freedom and World War I Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Death of Henry Flagler Dixie Highway Death of Joseph Parrott Payments to Catholic Schools Ended Poll Tax 1914 Fire Hastings and Locals will meet at Lewis Park Thursday A Florida Enchantment Bridge to be a Fine Structure 1915 4-H Program Begins in St. Johns County Elkton Methodist Episcoal South formed Old Jail (County) Daily Band Concerts to Begin January Fifteenth Lubin Movie Company Here for Three Months Flagler Hospital Silver Jubilee celebrated March 2, 1915 Nombre de Dios Chapel Spanish TrailUnveiling to be Seen in Movies Electing City Commissioner Church of Christ, Science Formed Sister Mary Thomasine To Organize Poultry Club Movie Company to Locate Here Alicia Hospital Schools Cut Back First Airport New Adjutant General is Here Nora Talmadge Films in St. Augustine Barbers Arrested for Keeping Open Johnny Ray to Establish Movie Industry Here Gov. Catts Issues Appeal for Reorganization First Regiment Many New Members Added to the Red Cross Auxilliary Recruiting Officer Recruits for the Naval Reserve Girls' National guard of Honor Support of Elks Pledged to President World War I Potato Farming City Garden Committee Met and Organized Red Cross Entertainment at the Jefferson County Roads Supply company Will Entrain Here Tomorrow Women of the City Are Registering Today Statue of General Kirby Smith Completed by Sculptor Pillars Navy League Has Big Display of Garments County Farm News Told of Army Life Stuart Pellicer Victim of Pneumonia at Camp Wheeler Thanksgiving Day at Camp Wheeler Underwent Exam Observed Lightless Thursdays Another St. Augustine Boy Making Good Heatless Mondays Start Next Week for Ten Week Period Fuel Restrictions Affect St. Augustine Negroes Called for War Duty Taking Pictures in St. Augustine Natural Colors Florida Memorial College Hurst Chapel African Methodist Episcopal St. Johns County Boys to Leave in the Morning Saint Johns Baptist Church Odds and Ends "Flu" Epidemic Under Congrol Training to be Given Women for Railroad Work No Services at Churches Sunday Dr. D. W. Roberts November 11, 1918 St. Augustine Historical Society Purchases the Gonzalez Alvarez House Union Service of Thanksgiving School Children have done well in the United War Drive Dance Wed. Night in Honor of All Ex-Service Men 1919 Sees Largest Enrollment in Public Schools due to new state law The Roaring 1920s Rudolph Valentino Comes to St. Augustine Grave of William Wing Loring Faculty List of Public School is Complete World War I Memorial Plaque Thanksgiving Day in St. Augustine The Shrimping Fleet and Docks The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Organized Flagstaff (World War I Monument) Hastings Potato Growers Association Founded Webb Building and Dr. Dewitt Webb Monument to Juan Ponce de Leon Church of God by Faith Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas Become National Monuments Hastings High School Construction Starts May 1924 Dr. Wilma Davis Calvary Baptist Church St. Johns Welfare Federation Memorial Evangelical Luthern Church Return of Pedro Menendez McDowell Chapel Church of God in Christ Acheson Chapel Church of Christ Steven Vincent Benet Excelsior School Evelyn Hamblin Center Deaths - Mrs. Sarah Capo Mount Moriah Baptist Church Bridge of Lions Antioch Baptist Church First National Bank Building Woman's Club Will Present "The Flapper Grandmother" Miss Hines Director St. Johns will send quota to State courses (April 29, 1929) Fruit Fly Found at Three County Sources (June 7, 1929) Medfly Fight Taking Form in this District (June 14, 1929) 4H Club Closing of First National Causes Run Pentecostal Holiness Church Zero Milestone Hotel Hastings The Great Depression to World War II Black Tuesday and the Collapse of the Stock Market The Old Spanish Treasury - Pena-Peck House Deeded to City The Great Depression Mt. Carmel Primitive Baptist Church Walter B. Fraser elected mayor of St. Augustine Church of Christ (African American) St. Augustine Primitive Baptist Church Government House Civic Center Built The Allighator Farm Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Water Plant Finished WPA Writes - Seeing St. Augustine Pleasant Row Baptist Church North City Officials in 1937 National Committee for the Preservation and Restoration of Historic St. Augustine St. Augustine Record Celebrates Preservation and Restoration WPA Starts Church Survey Return of Castillo de San Marcos Nathan Collier St. Augustine Airport Ketterlinus High School Class of 1939 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings HABAS and WPA WPA and Veteran's Grave Registration World War II and Post War 1941-1960 A Day that Will Live in Infamy German Sub lands Saboteurs in Ponte Vedra Beach Zora Neale Hurston April, 1941 the USO NCCS Club Opens St. Augustine Post No. 315 formed Other Veteran Organizations St. Johns County in the Service The Arsenal on Marine Army Signal School The Extension Service Goes to War African American Steward Program Army Military Police and Coast Guard SP Majorie Kinnan Rawlings German Sub lands Saboutuers in Ponte Vedra Beach Coast guard Takes over Ponce de Leon Hotel Sick Bay Officers School The Chaplains Weekly Dress Reviews St. Augustine also had a command for Army Outpost Troops Death of Miss Evelyn Hamblin World War II Guard Casualties World War II Guard Casualties Munipal Airport becomes Navy Flight School The Civic Center St. Johns County Red Cross Captain of the Port The St. Johns County Defense Council and the Women's Ambulance Corps St. Augustine's Own in the Coast Guard Local Service SPARS (Semper Paratus, Always Ready) Where were the WAACs? Marineland Does Its Part 1944 Hurricane Carneigie Institution of Washington turns the Llambias House over to the St. Augustine Historical Society Florida Memorial Post World War II Red Cross Will Open Work Rooms Tomorrow at 2:30 Airport World War II Marker placed near Public Market 1946 1946 City Commission Lightner Museum Snow Florida Memorial Accreditation Death of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Gary Cooper More Florida Memorial Trinity Episcopal Expands St. Augustine Extends Its Military Tradition St. Augustine Historical Planning Commission Creation of Richard J. Murray High School 400th Anniversary Celebration gets started Resolution of Respect Palm Valley Gets Its School Revival of Preservation First Director of the Historic Augustine Preservation Appointed A New Age of Rehab begins in the Oldest City St. Augustine Civil Rights 1960-1965 Civil Rights Era Early NAACP First Sit-in Henry Thomas Suit to Desegregate St. Johns County Public School Dr. Robert B. Hayling Vice-President Johnson Actual School Desegregation Shelley Elected Mayor Beginning of the Civil Rights Bill Mrs. Fannie Fullerwood Summer Demonstrations, 1963 Florida Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights More Demonstrations School Integration Cattle Prods and Dogs KKK Rally Connie Hunter's Letter to John F. Kennedy Molotov Cocktails Death of William David Kincaid More Violence against Blacks Spring Vacation 1963 and Mrs. Mary Peabody Staff Report of United States Civil Rights Commission School Integration Continues with a twist The Mayor Issues a Warning Street Demonstrations - Hoss Manucy, Connie Lynch, J. B. Stoner and L. O. Davis Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy Arrested St. Augustine Beach Wade-Ins Monson Swimming Pool U. S. Congress Passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act President Lyndon Johnson's Televised Address Aftermath Creating the Myth St. Augustine Rebounds 1965-1990 The Spanish Quarter Airport Authority St. Augustine Amphitheater Pan American Symposium on Restoration and Preservation of Historic Monuments Pan American Center Dedicated Casa del Hidago Dedicated Historic Preservation Board reviews house documentation National Historic Preservation Act Great Cross End of the Ponce de Leon St. Augustine Preservation Board The World Was Changing for the Railroad Beginning of Flagler College St. Johns Welfare Federation and Nursing Care St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District, Cathedral, Gonzalez-Alvarez House and Llambias House Flagler Receives a New President St. Photos Shrine (Avero House) National Register of Historic Places Sanchez Powder House Site Spanish Coquina Quarries ECHO House Ximenez-Fatio House Flagler College Accredited Historic Architectural Review Board Athalia Lindsley's Murder O'Reilly House Statue of Father Camps Ponce de Leon Hall listed in National Register of Historic Place Markland Grace United Methodist Church St. Augustine Comprehensive Plan Historic Sites and Buildings Survey St. Augustine Lighthouse After 56 years, Bob Lovett leaves his Hastings grocery Allen B Nease High School W. D. Hartley Elementary School Bridge of Lions Trinity Episcopal Continues Growth The Burning of Ketterlinus Junior High School Model Land Company and Abbott Tract Certified Local Government The Burning of Hastings Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue Historic Preservation Element Century Pioneer Families Old St. Johns County Jail Mayor and City Commission 1989 Lincolnville St. Augustine Alligator Farm The Solla Carcaba Cigar Factory Xavier Lopez House Villa Zorayda Fort Mose Samantha Wilson Nursing Home Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board Abolished Horace Walker House (Castillo Sebastian) Sanchez Homestead Dixie Highway and St. Augustine Civic Center Placed on the National Register Old St. Augustine Record Building Hastings High School Hastings Community Center Restoring the Florida Memorial Arch Stanbury Cottage (Gingerbread House) Diocesan Library Archives North City Historic District Fullerwood Historic District Created Nelmar Terrace Historic District Created |
| More than just History St. Augustine and St. Johns County is a naturalist paradise. There are many animals, plants, insects, etc. To discover here. For a list of the possibilities (Species and Natural Community Summary for St. Johns County) Look for: Basin Swamp Baygall Beach Dune Coastal Grassland Coastal Interdunal Swale Coastal Strand Depression Marsh Dome Swamp Estuarine Tidal Marsh Floodplain Swamp Hydric Hammock Maritime Hammock Mesic Flatwoods Sandhill Scrubby Flatwoods Scrub Xeric Hammock |
| The Hibiscus is the city of St. Augustine's official flower, and the Spanish Bayonet its official plant. The Southern Red Cedar is the official tree. |
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| View from the Castillo by W. J. Harris Circa 1912 |
| Casa Monica by William Henry Jackson 1889-1897 |
| The Ponce de Leon Hotel by William Henry Jackson |
| St. George St. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/147966 Photonegative of post card by W.J. Harris Company, St. Augustine. |
| Castillo Sam Cooley 1860s Library of Congress |
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