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The St. Augustine Alligator Farm, founded in 1893, [98] [99] is one of the oldest commercial tourist attractions in Florida, as is the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park, which has been a tourist attraction since around 1902. [100]
St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first colonial 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]
St. Augustine, Florida (1565) Founded on Sept. 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement ...
St. Augustine, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest permanent European settlement on the mainland of North America, north of Mexico. Its long colonial history extends to 1822, when Spanish East Florida was annexed to the United States as part of the Florida Territory. The city core's street plan, with narrow streets, dates to the first ...
208-foot cross [1]. Mission Nombre de Dios is a Catholic mission founded in 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida, on the west side of Matanzas Bay. [2] It is part of the Diocese of St. Augustine and is likely the oldest extant mission in the continental United States.
Cross and Sword was a 1965 play by American playwright Paul Green created to honor the 400th anniversary of the settlement of St. Augustine. It was Florida's official state play, having received the designation by the Florida Senate in 1973. [1] It was performed for ten weeks every summer in St. Augustine for more than 30 years, closing in 1996 ...
King Henry I of England granted St. Augustine's Abbey a six-day fair around the date on which Augustine's relics were translated to his new shrine, from 8 September through 13 September. [73] A life of Augustine was written by Goscelin around 1090, but this life portrays Augustine in a different light, compared to Bede's account.
Dec. 4, 2022; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Shoes are set out in the hopes of them being filled with sweets for St. Nicholas Day during the Ohio History Connection's annual Dickens of a Christmas event ...