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Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation's first enduring settlement.
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.
27 Σεπ 2024 · St. Augustine, oldest continuously settled city in the United States, seat (1822) of St. Johns county, northeastern Florida, about 40 miles (65 km) southeast of Jacksonville. It is situated on a peninsula between two saltwater rivers, the San Sebastian (west) and the Matanzas (east), and on the.
St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first governor. He named the settlement San Agustín, for his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. [ 5 ] .
Discover the stories of St. Augustine’s past. Founded by the Spanish in 1565, St. Augustine is the "Oldest Continuously Occupied European Settlement in America" or simply "The Ancient City". Trace the threads between the people and places that make up the tapestry that is St. Augustine’s history.
29 Σεπ 2020 · MPI/Getty Images. Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier...
10 Σεπ 2021 · Much of St. Augustine’s history has been uncovered through archaeology in the home sites of its colonial residents, and a great deal of what we know about their often difficult daily lives comes directly from the excavated artifacts those people made, used, lost and discarded over the centuries.
