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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WG6_st-augustine-on-anastasia-island-historical_St.-Augustine-FL.html
St. Augustine, the oldest European-settled city in the United States, was located on Anastasia Island from 1566 until 1572. Spanish settlers had founded the city on the west shore of the Matanzas River on Sept. 8, 1565. They built homes and a fort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWI_sentinels-of-the-coast_St-Augustine-FL.html
Since early times, coastal towers were important in the defense of St. Augustine. From the wooden lookout here in 1586, Spanish sentries warned of approaching English raiders under Sir Francis Drake. Later the tower was built of stone. It served d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWH_davis-shores_St-Augustine-FL.html
Until the 1920s the northwest corner of Anastasia Island was a swampy lowland with occasional peaks of high ground. In 1925, wealthy Florida land developer D.P. Davis purchased the lowlands and raised them in a massive 1,500 acre dredge and fill o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV1T_massacre-of-the-french_St-Augustine-FL.html
In 1565 some 300 French castaways, under Jean Ribault, were massacred here by Spaniards, crushing their attempt to occupy Florida. The French ships, sailing from Fort Caroline to attack St. Augustine, were driven ashore by a storm. At this inlet m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR9O_st-augustine-beach-wade-ins_St-Augustine-FL.html
Some of the most widely-publicized events of the civil rights movement took place at St. Augustine Beach in the summer of 1964, when wade-ins were conducted at what had historically been a beach reserved for "Whites Only". Many courageous local re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR8X_freedom-trail-5480-atlantic-view_St-Augustine-FL.html
This beach cottage attracted international attention in 1964, and a photograph taken here of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pointing to a bullet hole in the window has become one of the iconic images of the civil rights movement. It was the winter ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIVL_old-spanish-quarries_St-Augustine-FL.html
Marker Front:About 200 yards south-east of this point are the remains of the King's Coquina Quarries. (Coquina, a type of limestone composed of mollusk shells and sand, is found along the north-east coast of Florida.) Coquina was used in the build…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMI4E_fort-matanzas-national-monument_St-Augustine-FL.html
The Spanish built Fort Matanzas in 1740-42 to control Matanzas inlet, the "back door" to St. Augustine.
Much earlier, in 1565, Spain had bloodily crushed here a French challenge to her control of Florida by killing the remnants of a French colo…