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HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE
by Gil Wilson (laudator temporis acti)
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Victorian St. Augustine
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Memorial Presbyterian Church
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Castillo
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Oldest House
St. George Street
Charlette Street
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Welcome to the Largest St. Augustine History site on the Web. This site is a full history of the City of St. Augustine including many links to books and other web resources. Dr. Bronson also maintains the largest on-line selection of source materials for St. Augustine. Of course, no site about St. Augustine would be complete without pictures of our beautiful City. Please use the Google Search to find the thousands of names and supplimental pages for the history.

Subject Index

1st Spanish Period 1565 - 1600
In the Beginning
1st Spanish Period - The beginnings of the City of Stone
Juan Ponce de Leon
Voyages of Discovery
The French
Founding of the City
Saint Augustine
Landing of Menendez
Pedro Menendez removes French
Pedro Menendez sends the Jaun Pardo Expedition to Explore Florida
The First Recorded Medical Practicioner Arrives
The Threat of the English Begins
Sir Francis Drake
St. Augustine Hunts for the Colony of Roanoke
The Franciscans
The First Recorded Baptism
Nombre de Dios
Nuestra Senora de La Soledad
The Market Place Built
Destruction and Hardships

1st Spanish Period 1600 - 1700
Destruction and Hardships
Founding of Jamestown
Map of Florida
Robert Searles
Founding of Carolina
Building of the Castillo
The Watchtower on Anastasia Island
Military Duty
More Destruction
Company of Free Mulatto and Black Militia
Nicholas Grammont
Attacks on Carolina

1st Period Spanish Florida 1700-1763
Attack by Carolina
Gonzalez-Alvarez House
Fernandez-Llambias House
Don Joseph Tovar House
The Walled City
Bishop Visits
Francisco Menendez (part 1)
Founding of Georgia
Capture of Picolata by Georgians and 1740 Attack on St. Augustine
Francisco Menendez (part 2)
Oglethorpe's Return
St. Augustine in 1759
End of Spanish Rule

British Period 1763-1784
The British East Florida Seal
Map of the New Colonies (East and West Florida)
Arrival of the British
Proclamation of 1763
Departure of the Spanish
Arrival of Governor James Grant
Colony Governance
Rev. John Forbes
Ordnance Appointments
The Builders
William Stork
Military Totals
Settlers Wanted
Dependence
The Postman
Schoolmasters
Salaries
Bartram Visits
William Gerard de Brahm
The Minorcians
British Military
John Moultrie
Patrick Tonyn
Augustin Prevost
Bakery
American Revolution
The Florida East Coast Rangers
Revolutionary War Prisoners
More Prisoners
The Tolomato Cemetery
East Florida Assembly
End of British Rule

2nd Spanish Period 1784-1821
John Cruden
Governor Vizente Manuel de Zespedes
An Opportunity of Freedom - Zespedes Proclamation of July 26, 1784
Thomas Bell - Pirates
Return of Slaves
Father Thomas Hassett
The Cathedral
Don Manuel Solana House
Juan Nepomucceno de Quesada and the Rebellion of 1795
Chapel in the Castillo
Runaway Slaves
Enrique White and General Jorge Biassou
Father Felix Varela
Geronimo Alvarez and the 1812 Constitution Monument
Father Miguel O'Reilly
City Gate
Patriot Rebellion
Jose Coppinger
Green Flag Republic
Catholic Church
Onis-Adams Treaty
Transfer

Territorial Period 1821-1845
City Council
Joseph Hernandez
Treaty with the Seminoles
Slavery
Lighthouse
Presbyterian Church
Trinity United Methodist
Trinity Episcopal Church
Hurricane
Business in St. Augustine 1827
St. Augustine 1827 Tax Roll
Houses of St. Augustine
Newspaper Extracts
Seawall
From Boarding Houses to Hotels
Seminole Wars
Public Education
David Levy Yulee
Charles Downing
Tax Records 1837
Education Struggles on
The Escape of Andrew Gue
Fort Marion Work

Statehood 1845-1861
Statehood
Public Education After Statehood
Mexican War
A Hotel Tradition Begins - The Magnolia Hotel
City Patrols
Prewar Slavery
City Council Records
City Taxes in 1855 (Costs)
Tax Records 1855
Private Schools
And Union Soldiers are Born

Civil War 1861-1865
Capture of the Fort by the Confederates
Surrender to the United States Navy
The Women Were the Most Difficult
St. Augustine's African-American Union Soldiers
Guarding St. Augustine
St. Augustine's Confederate Soldiers
General William Wing Loring
General Edmond Kirby Smith
General William J. Hardee
General Stephen Vincent Benet
African-American Education
The Ex-Slaves

Reconstruction in St. Augustine 1865-1877
Military order, Dec. 1, 1865
Presidential Pardons
Mayors of the Reconstruction Period
Freedmen Bureau Schools Continue
Getting to St. Augustine
St. Augustine Becomes Part of the World
St. Mary's Academy
Cobb House
Military Rule
Sisters of St. Joseph
Beginning of St. Johns County Public Schools
Society of Benedict the Moor and the St. Augustine Benovelent Society for Catholics
First African-American Voter Election
Lincolnville and New St. Augustine
Bishop Augustin Verot
Buckingham Smith
William Van Dyke
Confederate Civil War Monument
H. W. Chatfield Post and John A. Logan GAR
St. Paul AME and First Baptist Church
Plains Indians stay at Fort Marion
Hotels of St. Augustine
Death of Dr. Oliver Bronson
Bronson Cottage
St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church
Constance Fenimore Woolson

Post Reconstruction in St. Augustine 1877-1885
Growth of the St. Johns County School System
John Papino
Communications
Presidential Visits
The 1880's
Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church (Grace United Methodist)
Founding of the St. Augustine Historical Society
Restoration of the Castillo
Fire Department
Apache Indians Come to Fort Marion

Flagler Era 1885-1900
1887 Fire
William G. Warden
Isaac Cruft Brings a Quality Hotel Experience to St.               Augustine the San Marco Hotel
Villa Zorayda and Franklin Smith
Florida School for the Deaf and Blind
Ponce de Leon, Alcazar, Sunnyside Hotel
The Ponce de Leon Hotel
The Alcazar
The Casa Monica
Opening and Dedication of Grace Episcopal Methodist Church
McGuire and McDonald, Dr. Anderson, and Osborne Seavey
Hotel Life
Technical Inovations
Cordova Hotel
Return of Carrie Semple
Dr. F. F. Smith and Dr. Anderson
Florida East Coast Railway
Telephone
Havana & St. Augustine Cigar
Joe Perry
exPresident Grover Cleveland Returns to the PDL
Frederick Douglass
Memorial Presbyterian Built
The Alicia Hospital
East Coast Hospital
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell Visits
St. Benedict the Moor
Thomas Hastings, Henry Flagler and the founding of              the Town of Hastings
Old Jail
Flagler Buys an Orange Grove in San Mateo
Ancient City Baptist
Tatler Magazine
D.A.R.
Villa Flora and Amarylla
St. Cyprian Episcopal Church
Sons of Israel
School System
Ida Alice Shrouds
Schools at the Turn of the Century
The Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection
The Last Pirate

The Progressive Era to WWII 1900 - 1941
E Reynold's 1900 School Report
St. Joseph's Academy
Ponce de Leon Hotel Gets and Important Visitor ---                  Admiral George Dewey and Wife
Casino Bowling Alley
Cake Walks
1901-1902 State School Report
Soldiers in the Phillipines
Shooting of Councilman John Pappino
The Rebuilding of Trinity Episcopal
Cordova becomes the Alcazar Annex
Rural Schools On again/off again
Y.M.C.A.
Theodore Roosevelt Visits the Ponce de Leon
The Film Industry Comes to St. Augustine
Dr. Brown's Hospital
Carcaba's Cigar Factory
Orange Street School and 1st Methodist Church
Frank Genovar and the Cuban Connection
The Town of Hastings 1910
Grand opening of the Ponce de Leon Hotel in 1910
Casino's Washington Day Dance
Airplane Flights
Health Department
D. D. Corbette Becomes School Superintendent
Death of Henry Flagler
Dixie Highway
1914 Fire
A Florida Enchantment
Old Jail (County)
Nombre de Dios Chapel
sister Mary Thomasine
Alicia Hospital
Schools Cut Back
First Airport
World War I
Florida Memorial College
Dr. D. W. Roberts
1919 Sees Largest Enrollment in Public Schools due to           new state law
Rudolph Valentino Comes to St. Augustine
Flagstaff (World War I Monument)
Webb Building and Dr. Dewitt Webb
Monument to Juan Ponce de Leon
Fort Marion and Fort Matanzas Become National Monuments
Hastings High School Construction Starts
Dr. Wilma Davis
St. Johns Welfare Federation
Return of Pedro Menendez
Steven Vincent Benet
Excelsior School
Evelyn Hamblin Center
Bridge of Lions
First National Bank Building
The Great Depression
Government House
Return of Castillo de San Marcos
Nathan Collier
St. Augustine Airport

World War II and Post War 1941-1960
Majorie Kinnan Rawlings
Coast guard Takes over Ponce de Leon Hotel
Zora Neal Hurston
Army Signal School
Death of Miss Evelyn Hamblin
World War II Guard Casualties
Florida Memorial
Airport
Lightner Museum
Snow
Florida Memorial Accreditation
Death of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Gary Cooper
More Florida Memorial
Creation of Richard J. Murray High School
Palm Valley Gets Its School

St. Augustine Civil Rights 1960-1965
Civil Rights Era
Early NAACP
First Sit-in
Henry Thomas
Suit to Desegregate St. Johns County Public School
Dr. Robert B. Hayling
Vice-President Johnson
Actual School Desegregation
Shelley Elected Mayor
Mrs. F. Fullerwood
Summer Demonstrations, 1963
Florida Advisory Committee to the US Commission on             Civil Rights
More Demonstrations
School Integration
Cattle Prods and Dogs
KKK Rally
Death of William David Kincaid
More Violence against Blacks
Spring Vacation 1963 and Mrs. Mary Peabody
School Integration Continues with a twist
The Mayor Issues a Warning
Street Demonstrations - Hoss Manucy, Connie Lynch, J. B. Stoner and L. O. Davis
Dr. King and Rev. Abernathy Arrested
Monson Swimming Pool
St. Augustine Beach Wade-Ins
U. S. Congress Passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Aftermath
Creating the Myth

St. Augustine Rebounds 1965-1990
Airport Authority
Great Cross
End of the Ponce de Leon
Beginning of Flagler College
St. Johns Welfare Federation and Nursing Care
St. Photos Shrine
ECHO House
Athalia Lindsley's Murder
Statue of Father Camps
Allen B Nease High School
W. D. Hartley Elementary School
The Burning of Hastings
Dr. Martin Luther King Avenue
More than just History

St. Augustine and St. Johns County is a naturalist paradise.  There are many animals, plants, insects, etc. to discover here.  For a list of the possibilities (Species and Natural Community Summary for St. Johns County)

Look for:
Basin Swamp   
Baygall  
Beach Dune   
Coastal Grassland   
Coastal Interdunal Swale   
Coastal Strand   
Depression Marsh   
Dome Swamp   
Estuarine Tidal Marsh   
Floodplain Swamp   
Hydric Hammock  
Maritime Hammock  
Mesic Flatwoods 
Sandhill   
Scrubby Flatwoods  
Scrub  
Xeric Hammock
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