Since so many paranormal events have occurred at the haunted lighthouse in St. Augustine Florda, I decided to pull together some key information from various sources into this one posting. The lighthouse looking up from the...
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A pirate execution in old Florida? Well, almost. This is one of the strangest historic tales from Florida’s oldest city, St. Augustine. Pirates still roam the streets of St. Augustine You see, in the early days of the Sunshine State, when...
Read morePyramids? In a National Cemetery? You bet. Built out of local shell stone called coquina, the three pyramids in St. Augustine cover the remains of 1,468 soldiers who died in the Second Seminole War (1835-1842). At the end of the war in 1842, the...
Read moreThe Cathedral-Basilica of St. Augustine is the oldest parish in the continental United States. Established during the celebration of mass in 1565 when Pedro Menendez de Aviles first landed in the area, the parish has been serving the city’s...
Read moreIn America’s oldest city, the past immediately comes alive as you enter its historic district. The place is like a municipal time machine within which you can lose yourself for days on end. Anchored by the old Spanish fort on Matanzas Bay...
Read moreIn 1888, famed Standard Oil businessman, Henry Flagler, opened his beautiful Ponce de Leon Hotel in downtown St. Augustine on King Street. Created by using poured concrete, it was the first major building made this way in the United States. The...
Read moreFor over 300 years, the Castillo de San Marcos has stood guard over the city of St. Augustine. Begun by the Spanish in 1672, the structure was finally completed in 1695. Because previous wooden forts kept getting burned down by invaders, this one...
Read moreBack in 1668, Captain Robert Searles and his fellow pirates attacked the Spanish city of St. Augustine. In their search for silver ingots, they killed sixty people, looted the place and destroyed buildings. It was this raid that motivated the...
Read moreSt. Augustine’s history is definitely written in the names of its streets and other locations. One such area is Matanzas Bay and Matanzas River. Loosely interpreted as meaning “bloody”, the word Matanzas has a definition closer...
Read morePhotos compliments of Searle’s Buccaneers and BD Cooper
Read moreEspecially in the historic district, St. Augustine’s street names link that old city back to the time of its Spanish founders. With labels such as Aviles St., Avenida Menendez, Castillo Drive, Ponce de Leon Avenue, and Granada St., visitors...
Read moreThere has been an actual lighthouse on the Florida coast at St. Augustine since 1824, the first in the United States. Made of coquina, Florida shell rock, that structure fell into the sea during a storm in 1880. Foreseeing such an event, the...
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