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| HISTORY OF ST. AUGUSTINE by Gil Wilson (laudator temporis acti) |
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| Victorian St. Augustine Flagler College Memorial Presbyterian Church Grace United Methodist Ancient City Baptist and hundreds of houses |
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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 |
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| 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 |
