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  2. Sánchez de Ortigosa House - Wikipedia

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    The St. Augustine Historic Restoration and Preservation Commission (later the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board) completed a reconstruction of the Sánchez de Ortigosa house in 1966. It was built as a one-story pink house on the corners of St. George Street and Cuna Street. The roof was built of tile and cement.

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Johns ...

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    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.

  4. Triay House - Wikipedia

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    While the British were in possession of Florida, merchant Jesse Fish held the property. Juan San Salvador bought the property when Florida was returned to Spain in 1783, but soon after sold it to Francisco Triay. Triay was a Minorcan settler who came to St. Augustine from Andrew Turnbull's New Smyrna colony. The Triay family owned the home ...

  5. Ortega House (St. Augustine) - Wikipedia

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    The British governor granted the property in November 1779 to a John Proctor. After Proctor's death the house was sold in June 1787, at public sale, for 250 pounds to James Scotland, carpenter. When Spain again changed hands in 1783, Scotland left Florida and gave his house to William Slater to sell. [1]

  6. Rodriguez-Avero-Sanchez House - Wikipedia

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    St. Johns County listings at Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs; Rodriguez-Avero-Sanchez House; Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. FL-126, "Rodriguez-Avero-Sanchez House, 52 Saint George Street, Saint Augustine, St. Johns, FL", 7 photos, 3 measured drawings, 16 data pages, supplemental material

  7. Minorcans of Florida - Wikipedia

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    In the fall of 1777, the workers had decided enough was enough, and several of them walked to St. Augustine to petition the East Florida governor, Patrick Tonyn, to release them from their contracts. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Toyn gave refuge to the workers, granted them an area in the northwest section of the old walled city, helping to form the core of St ...

  8. History of St. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Map depicting Sir Francis Drake's 1586 attack on St. Augustine City Gate, St. Augustine c. 1861–65 View looking into town, St. George Street. St. Augustine was intended to be a base for further colonial expansion [28] across what is now the southeastern United States, but such efforts were hampered by apathy and hostility on the part of the ...

  9. St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District - Wikipedia

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    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 period of Spanish control, which ended in 1763 with the cession of Florida to Great Britain. Britain returned Florida to Spain in 1784.