One hundred years later, English pirates killed most of St. Augustine's residents. After that massacre, the Spanish built the Castillo de San Marcos. The Ancient City became an important British military center and supply depot. It was a Union town after until the end of the Civil War. Some of the earliest settlers in modern St Augustine were Minorcans. Augustine, in by Dr.
Andrew Turnbull , a Scottish physician. Turnbull thought these hardy people would be able to withstand the brutal Florida climate and conditions. His idea was to form a colony and develop a plantation. Life was miserable among the alligators, snakes and mosquitoes in the mangrove swamps around New Smyrna.
The colonists were very unhappy and believed Dr. Turnbull had made false promises and not lived up to his bargain with them. The distraught colonists began to hear about St Augustine, and many of them decided to move up there. During May and June of most of the colonists migrated to St Augustine and by 17 July Turnbull's attorneys had set all the colonists free. Some of the family names that you will see in the phone book and on local businesses include Acosta, Manucy, Pellicer, Pacetti, Ponce and Canova.
In the years after the Civil War, and through the development sparked by Henry Flagler, St Augustine remained in many ways a typical small southern town. The distinctive three towers of its headquarters have been a St.
In the early s, expeditions were sent from St. Augustine to attack the British colony at Jamestown, Virginia. Displaced Indians from the north attacked the missionaries in St. Augustine during the second half of the 17th century. And in , St. Augustine was sacked again by British buccaneers which prompted the building of a permanent masonry fort which, today, is one of St.
After more years of strife that saw St. Augustine razed yet again by the British, Florida was finally ceded by the Spanish in to their enemy for what was a brief year period before the Spanish eventually returned to reclaim the land. But not for long…. Florida, during this tumultuous time in history, was not a priority for the Spanish crown which was spread too thin and depleted of resources.
The United States, a young, ambitious nation fresh off its own revolution, was expanding and coveted Florida as an ideal territory to bolster their military interests.
The rest of the 19th century consisted of wars with the local Seminole, Creek and Miccosukee peoples in a struggle for land, a huge spike in population growth by white settlers, and a fleeing of the population when the Union Army reclaimed St. Augustine from Confederate control in Augustine and usher in a new era of prosperity that would make him a legend.
Henry Flagler, a man who made his fortune in the oil business, sought the warmer climes of St. Augustine as a respite for his ailing wife. He immediately saw massive potential in this small town as a vacation hotspot for wealthy northerners and proceeded to invest heavily in St. They therefore resorted to trickery, seizing Seminole leader Osceola and about 70 warriors by luring them in under a white flag of truce.
The captives were marched seven miles northeast to St. Augustine, where they were stashed at Fort Marion, a structure first built by the Spanish in the late s. Twenty Seminoles engineered a daring escape by squeezing through a small hole near the roof and falling into the moat below. But not Osceola, who fell ill and died upon being transferred to a jail in South Carolina. In , as St. Augustine prepared to celebrate its th anniversary, Martin Luther King Jr.
The Ku Klux Klan and other whites responded violently, severely beating several of the activists, constantly insulting and heaving projectiles at them, and setting a car and home on fire.
The owner of a whites-only pool even used acid to dislodge a mixed-race group that had jumped in. Meanwhile, King was arrested for trying to eat in a segregated restaurant, and the house he was supposed to stay in was strafed with gunfire.
Augustine, the hard work nonetheless paid off. In part due to the national attention the protests received, the Senate voted to end an day filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. King and his compatriots left town on July 1, the day before President Lyndon B. Submit An Event. Visit St. Augustine Area Accommodations Near the sea, beneath the stars, or close to attractions and historic sites, St.
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