September 8th, 1565 is Founder’s Day in St. Augustine. Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed in that harbor and proclaimed the area St. Augustine. He then built a fort-Castillo de San Marcos. This was the basis of the longest continously settled town in the United States. Ponce de Lion had actually landed there on MarchContinue reading “September 8 ‘Nothing New(d) under the sun””
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