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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI7_dr-peck-house_St-Augustine-FL.html
The stone walls of this building date from before 1750 and were part of a house owned by the Royal Treasurer late in the First Spanish Period. During the British Period it served for a time as the home of Governor John Moultrie. In 1837 Dr. Seth S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI5_frederick-douglass_St-Augustine-FL.html
On this site, where the "Genovar Opera House" once stood, Frederick Douglass spoke to the residents of St. Augustine on Sunday, April 7, 1889.
Born into slavery in 1818, Douglass rose in the pre-Civil War years to become a leading exponent of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVI0_sanchez-house_St-Augustine-FL.html
This house was built circa 1809 by Francis Xavier Sanchez and his wife, Mary Hill of Charleston, lately of Virginia. That is the probable reason for the English colonial interior rather than the usual Spanish.
This house was retouched for poste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVHZ_casa-avero_St-Augustine-FL.html
Built 1749 - Restored 1979This shrine is dedicated to the memory of the 400 Greeks who arrived in St. Augustine in 1768, took on fresh supplies, then journeyed south to help settle the colony of New Smyrna, Florida. After ten difficult years, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFZ_huguenot-cemetery_St-Augustine-FL.html
Before Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821, this land was owned by Spain. In 1807 parcels of land to the north of the city gate were granted to residents interested in farming. However, as a defense measure, Governor Enrique White set out a sp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFY_public-burying-ground_St-Augustine-FL.html
During the yellow fever epidemic of 1821, this half-acre plot was set aside as a public cemetery. Many Protestant pioneers to the new Florida Territory are buried here. Often such burials, made at public expense, went unmarked.
The Presbyterian…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFD_warden-winter-home_St-Augustine-FL.html
The Warden Winter Home was built in 1887 for William G. Warden of Philadelphia. A partner with Henry Flagler and John D. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil Company, Warden was also the President of the St. Augustine Gas and Electric Light Company and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVFC_fuente-de-los-ca-os-de-san-francisco_St-Augustine-FL.html
The set of masks that decorate this fountain was a gift to the City of St. Augustine by its sister city in Spain, the City of Avil, birthplace of Pedro Men?ndez, founder of St. Augustine in 1565.
Presented in 2005 to the people of St. Augustine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVE7_the-cubo-line_St-Augustine-FL.html
Following the 1702 English siege of St. Augustine, the Spanish began construction of a defensive system to protect the Presidio. The Cubo Line, built in 1704 to safeguard the town's northern sector, was the first line of defense the Spanish raised…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVE6_los-floridanos_St-Augustine-FL.html
"Los Floridanos" referred to the children born to the Spanish settlers of St. Augustine during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763). Translated it means "The Floridians" and record of this title can be found in many Spanish Government documents, i…