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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WDQ_fort-san-diego-historical_Ponte-Vedra-Beach-FL.html
In 1736 Diego de Espinosa owned a cattle ranch on Diego Plains, a flat, open area east of here.
For protection against Indians, his house was surrounded by a 15-foot high palisade with two bastions at opposite corners.
Manned later by Spanish s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RAN_30-8-north-latitude_Ponte-Vedra-Beach-FL.html
This site is believed by some historians to correspond with the offshore location where Juan Ponce de Leon calculated his fleet's position when he first sighted Florida. Ponce's fleet of three vessels set sail from Puerto Rico in early March 1513.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J9V_governor-grants-plantations_Ponte-Vedra-Beach-FL.html
In 1768, James Grant (1720-1806), Governor of British East Florida from 1763 to 1773, established Grant's Villa Plantation at the juncture of the Guana and North Rivers. Enslaved Africans cleared the 1,450-acre tract of land, planted indigo seeds,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12WI_world-war-ii-operation-pastorius-st-johns-county_Ponte-Vedra-Beach-FL.html
World War II Operation Pastorius ????????Nazi Saboteurs Landed HereOn the night of June 16, 1942, German U-boat U-584 landed four trained Nazi agents here dressed as American civilians. After burying four boxes containing explosives and incendiari…