The St. Augustine Evening Record reported on Sept. 14, 1930 that a bolt of lightning struck a party of five men from the Arbuthnot Lumber Mill who took refuge in old Fort Matanzas.

After the 45-mile trek from St. Augustine, Spanish soldiers captured Fort Caroline and renamed it Fort San Mateo. Sept. 29, 1565 Pedro Menendez and soldiers arrived at the inlet south of St ...

Fort Mose residents evacuated to more secure structures in St. Augustine, and the English bombarded the city for a month. In June 1740, Spanish forces that included free Blacks and Native ...

During Black History Month (Feb. 1-28), St. Augustine will be noted many times as the location of the first town in the United States established for free Blacks. And rightly so. Usually called by ...

Castillo de San Marcos, built with coquina, is the oldest masonry fort in the continental U.S. The fort has never been taken by force and became a National Park in 1933.

Fort Mose, on the northern end of St. Augustine, was originally established by the Spanish as the first legally sanctioned free Black community in what would become the United States.

ancient st. augustine; an old city that is fast becoming new. fort san marco and its gloomy dungeons and tales of spanish cruelty.

Gov. Estrada refused the demand to surrender the Spanish colony to the Americans who surrounded St. Augustine. Estrada's resolve and eloquence shows in his address to St. Augustinians.