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The González–Álvarez House is located in a residential area south of downtown St. Augustine, on the north side of St. Francis Street between Charlotte and Marine Streets. It is a two-story structure, its first floor built of coquina and its upper level framed in wood with a clapboarded exterior.
Marineland of Florida (usually just called Marineland), one of Florida's first marine mammal parks, is billed as "the world's first oceanarium".Marineland functions as an entertainment and swim-with-the-dolphins facility, and reopened to the public on March 4, 2006 (charging the original 1938 admission price of one dollar).
A 2-year-old North Atlantic right whale died off the shore of St. Augustine Feb. 3, 2011, and was dragged onto the beach for an autopsy. Oceanic and wildlife officials helped untangle the 30-feet long, 15,000-pound whale from rope and other debris three other times since Christmas day. Picture of whale alive here:
View of the Matanzas Bay from the Castillo de San Marcos United States Topographical Map of St. Augustine, Florida. Matanzas Bay is a saltwater bay in St. Johns County, Florida; the entrance to the bay from the South Atlantic is via St. Augustine inlet. Technically this stretch of water running along the city's waterfront is part of the ...
In 1740, a British invasion force from Fort Frederica, Georgia blockaded this inlet, the southernmost access for boat travel between St. Augustine and Havana, Cuba. Shortly thereafter, in 1742, a coquina stone tower 50 feet (15 m) square by 30 feet (9.1 m) high, now called Fort Matanzas , was built by the Spanish authorities in Florida to ...
Oldest House Museum, December 2018. The Oldest House Museum is located in St. Augustine, Florida in St. Johns County, Florida.It is operated by the St. Augustine Historical Society and includes the González-Alvarez House, the Manucy Museum (named for Albert Manucy) of local history and the Edwards Gallery.
Capo's Bath House was a structure that appeared in many images of the Saint Augustine, Florida waterfront during 1870–1914. Capo's occupied an octagonal-shaped building located on a bay pier near 20 Bay Street across from Baya Lane throughout the Flagler Era. It appears in a sketch from 1875 that shows a wood building on a stone foundation ...