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In the early 1960's, the St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission (later renamed the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board) bought the plot of land between the Casa del Hidalgo, once a tourism office run by the Spanish Government, [1] and the Pan American Center to build a garden as a symbolic link between the shared Hispanic heritage of Spain, Latin America, and ...
The house was interpreted as a representation of a wealthy St. Augustine family. The Ribera House Garden became the first formal garden in the restored downtown area. There was a dedication ceremony to open the garden in early May 1968. The president of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, Inc., Carroll O. Griffin, presided over the ceremony.
Location of St. Johns County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Johns County, Florida. 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 ...
The St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park is one of Florida's oldest continuously running attractions, having opened on May 20, 1893. [3] It has 24 species of crocodilians , and also a variety of other reptiles , mammals and birds , as well as exhibits, animal performances and educational demonstrations.
The institution now known as Florida Memorial University was located in St. Augustine from 1918 to 1968, when it relocated to its present campus in Miami Gardens. Originally known as Florida Baptist Academy, then Florida Normal, and then Florida Memorial College, it was a historically black institution and had a wide impact on St. Augustine ...
On behalf of that President’s Commission, he invited the Pan American Union to take part in the restoration project occurring in downtown St. Augustine in the 1960s. The goal was to have representatives from Latin American countries arrange cultural exchanges, exhibits, and musical performances for the St. Augustine’s quadricentennial in 1965.
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Florida is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Florida [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Anastasia State Park is a 1,600-acre (6.5 km 2) state park in Florida, United States. Its location is on a peninsula on Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay from downtown St. Augustine along the Atlantic coastal plain. This park has a variety of wildlife, birds and plants in a setting of beaches, tidal salt marsh, and marine and upland hammock.