Tag: castillo de san marcos

• The Colonial Quarter & Castillo de San Marcos | Historic St. Augustine, Florida

  

  Prior to the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock and before the English colony of Jamestown, there was St. Augustine in Florida. It was founded as a settlement in 1565 by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, which makes it the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African American origin in the United States. I had come…

  shezlikethewind

  December 20, 2022

  Jetsetting

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