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St. Augustine, Florida

1565 · 16th century

St. Augustine is a city on the Atlantic coast of north-east Florida, founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, who went on to destroy the French Huguenot colony at Fort Caroline. As capital of Spanish Florida, defended by the stone Castillo de San Marcos, it relied on maize and labour from the Apalachee and Timucua missions. It is the oldest continuously inhabited European-founded city in the United States.

St. Augustine, Florida
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Mentioned in 3 state histories

Apalachee chiefdomFrench FloridaSpanish Florida

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). St. Augustine, Florida. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/st-augustine-florida
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