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Governor's House Cultural Center and Museum, St Augustine Florida (Field Trip 3)
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St. Augustine, Florida
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City of St. Augustine
St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States. It is the second oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in United States territory after San Juan, Puerto Rico (founded in 1521).
The county seat of St. Johns County, St. Augustine is part of Florida's First Coast region and the Jacksonville metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 12,975. The United States Census Bureau's 2013 estimate of the city's population was 13,679, while the urban area had a population of 71,379 in 2012.
St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first governor. He named the settlement San Agustín, as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years. It was designated as the capital of British East Florida when the colony was established in 1763 until it was ceded to Spain in 1783.
Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, and St. Augustine was designated the capital of the Florida Territory upon ratification of the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1821. The Florida National Guard made the city its headquarters that same year. The territorial government moved and made Tallahassee the capital in 1824. Since the late 19th century, St. Augustine's distinct historical character has made the city a major tourist attraction.
In 1965, St. Augustine celebrated the 400th anniversary of its founding, and jointly with the State of Florida, inaugurated a program to restore part of the colonial city. The Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board was formed to reconstruct more than thirty-six buildings to their historical appearance, which was completed within a few years. When the State of Florida abolished the Board in 1997, the City of St. Augustine assumed control of the reconstructed buildings, as well as other historic properties including the Government House. In 2010, the city transferred control of the historic buildings to UF Historic St. Augustine, Inc., a direct support organization of the University of Florida.
In 2015, St. Augustine celebrated the 450th anniversary of its founding with a four-day long festival and a visit from Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain.
On October 7, 2016 Hurricane Matthew caused widespread flooding in downtown St. Augustine.
On March 4, 2019 Tracy Upchurch was appointed to replace Mayor Nancy Shaver after she resigned due to health concerns. Tracy Upchurch served as mayor of the city of St. Augustine from 1990-1992. Upchurch is currently a practicing attorney, professor of law at Flagler College, and the interim mayor of the city of St. Augustine.
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Ximenez-Fatio House Museum
This Virtual Field Trip takes you to the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, the most excavated property in St. Augustine. Executive Director Julie Gatlin talks about some of the archaeology done there.
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TOP 15. Best Museums in Saint Augustine - Florida: St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum, The Lightner Museum, World Golf Hall of Fame, The Ximenez-Fatio House, Spanish Military Hospital Museum, Potter's Wax Museum, The Oldest Store Museum, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, Villa Zorayda Museum, Fort Menendez at the Old Florida Museum, Wolf's Museum of Mystery, The Oldest House Museum Complex, Government House Museum, Dow Museum of Historic Houses
Downtown Saint Augustine 4 Hour Historic walking tour, Landmarks, art galleries
Downtown King Street easy four hour walking tour, Almost directly adjacent to each other are Flagler College The original Ponce de leon hotel The Alkazar hotel complex, Now Saint Augustine city Hall,The Lightner Museum, and And Antique Mall and cafe alkazar, As well across the street, the Government House, and Museum, and another hotel property the historic Casa Monica Hotel, and numerous art galleries antique shops, and diverse other shops and stores,
First Colony: Our Spanish Origins Exhibition
Produced by the Florida Museum of Natural History, the First Colony: Our Spanish Origins exhibit opens at Government House in St. Augustine in October 2013. The exhibit tells the story of the origins of St. Augustine, the nation's oldest city, and will open at the Florida Museum in Gainesville in 2016.
St. Augustine Lighthouse
A Spanish watchtower, built in the late 1500's was the predecessor of the present St. Augustine Lighthouse. St. Augustine is the site of the oldest, permanent aid to navigation in North America. A series of wooden watchtowers evolved into Florida's first lighthouse,. It is likely that some of these early towers held a flame, as is indicated on several archival maps and documents. However, officially the first light in St. Augustine was lit in an existing coquina structure in May of 1824 by Florida's American territorial government. By 1870, this Old Spanish Watchtower as it was known, was threatened by shoreline erosion and the US Congress appropriated $100K for a new tower. Construction began in 1871, and it continued for the next three years. Alabama brick and Philadelphia iron work combined with a new hand-blown, nine-foot-tall, Fresnel lens, from Paris, France. This beacon was installed and lit in October of 1874 by head keeper William Russell and remains one of only a few such operating lenses in the United States. The old tower succumbed to the sea during a storm in 1880. At this time Brev. Major William A. Harn, United States Army (retired) was head keeper. Harn was a veteran of most of the major battles of the Civil War including Fort Sumter and Gettysburg.
The Lighthouse is St. Augustine's oldest surviving brick structure, and today the site is restored to colors and materials used the year 1888.
The St. Augustine Lighthouse rises 165 feet above sea level and contains 219 steps that are climbed by visitors. At the top, the original, first order Fresnel lens still serves the beacon, but today is lit by a 1000 watt bulb, and maintained by the museum and volunteers. The St. Augustine lens consists of 370 hand-cut glass prisms arranged in a beehive shape towering twelve feet tall and six feet in diameter.
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National Cyptologic Museum, Annapolis, MD - Travel Thru History
Here's an inside look at the National Cryptologic Museum, just outside of the NSA campus in Annapolis Junction. The museum houses a working German Enigma machine as well as a Purple Analog machine. This segment first appeared on our Baltimore episode. For more information visit or
St Augustine Lighthouse.
The existing lighthouse, located on Anastasia Island in St. Augustine Florida is the second lighthouse to have been built in that area.
Florida was ceded to the United States in 1821. One of the initial things the U.S. Government decided to do was to establish a lighthouse at St. Augustine to aid sailors in navigating to or past the city.
The first lighthouse was completed on March 16, 1824. The tower was initially only 30 feet tall. It had ten Winslow Lewis lamps with 14-inch reflectors that were first lit on April 3, 1824. Sometime later the tower was raised to a height of 52 feet. A 4th-order Fresnel lens was added in 1855. The light was darkened during the Civil War but was re-lit 1867.
As with many lighthouses of the day, however, the first tower became threatened by the shore erosion and the encroaching ocean. By 1870 the government determined that a new lighthouse was needed. The tower was deactivated on October 15, 1874. The abandoned tower survived until 1880 when the ocean got the best of it and it crashed into the sea.
The government obtained five acres of land a little bit further inland and on higher ground and began construction of a new lighthouse in 1871. The lighthouse was designed by Paul J. Pelz, who later designed the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.. It was completed and activated on October 15, 1874. The new lighthouse was a beauty.
The tower is constructed of brick and stands 165 feet tall. The tower is painted with black and white spiral bands similar to the Cape Hatteras Light in North Carolina and has a red lantern room. The tower sits on an octagonal foundation that has an attached single-story entry building with a gabled roof. The entry building looks almost identical to the ones at Bodie Island Light and Currituck Beach Light, both in North Carolina. The entry building was used as a fuel storage house and as the lightkeeper's office. Twelve granite steps lead from the entry house to the base of the tower. There are eight flights of cast iron stairs for a total of 202 steps leading to the watchroom and ten additional steps leading to the lantern room.
The lighthouse was equipped with a 1st-order Fresnel lens. The lens was designed with three bulls-eye lenses at 120 degrees apart. This created a light that was normally a fixed steady light but when the bulls-eye part of the lens rotated in front of the light, a higher intensity flash would be seen. The steady portion of the light can be seen for approximately 19 miles and the periodic flash can be seen for up to 24 miles. Before electricity, the light apparatus rotated in a nine-minute revolution and produced a flash every three minutes. When the light was electrified in 1936 the rotation was increased. Today the lens completes a rotation in 90 seconds resulting in a flash every 30 seconds. During WW II, the 1,000 watt bulb was replace with a 50 watt bulb to make the light less visible to the German submarines that sat offshore sinking our ships. The light was automated in 1955 and the last keeper, James L. Pippin, retired.
The lens was damaged by a rifle bullet shot by a local teenager in 1986. The Coast Guard was going to replace the lens with a modern optic but the Junior Service League of St. Augustine raised the $500,000 dollars needed to repair the lens. The lens was removed in 1991 and a temporary light installed. The lens was repaired and replaced in 1993, at which time the temporary light used during the repair was removed.
The brick two-story duplex keepers house was completed in 1876. The house has verandas up and down on both the front and the back with white trim. The head keeper and family occupied one side of the house and the assistant keepers with family occupied the other side. Two large cisterns in the basement collected rainwater from the roof gutters. In 1885 summer kitchens were added to both sides of the house. The tower and keeper's house are the oldest surviving brick buildings in St. Augustine.
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The area of the modern city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years. On Black Hammock Island in the national Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, a University of North Florida team discovered some of the oldest remnants of pottery in the United States, dating to 2500 BC. In the 16th century, the beginning of the historical era, the region was inhabited by the Mocama, a coastal subgroup of the Timucua people. At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River. One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville; this may be the earliest recorded name for that area.
European explorers first arrived in the area 1562, when French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River. In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, on the St. Johns near the main village of the Saturiwa. On September 20, 1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, and killed nearly all the French soldiers defending it. The Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustine's position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified.
Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, and the British soon constructed the King's Road connecting St. Augustine to Georgia. The road crossed the St. Johns River at a narrow point, which the Seminole called Wacca Pilatka and the British named the Cow Ford, both names ostensibly reflecting the fact that cattle were brought across the river there. Britain ceded control of the territory back to Spain in 1783, after its defeat in the American Revolutionary War, and the settlement at the Cow Ford continued to grow. After Spain ceded the Florida Territory to the United States in 1821, American settlers on the north side of the Cow Ford decided to plan a town, laying out the streets and plats. They soon named the town Jacksonville, after Andrew Jackson. Led by Isaiah D. Hart, residents wrote a charter for a town government, which was approved by the Florida Legislative Council on February 9, 1832.
During the American Civil War, Jacksonville was a key supply point for hogs and cattle being shipped from Florida to aid the Confederate cause. The city was blockaded by Union forces, who gained control of the nearby Fort Clinch. From 1862, they controlled the city and most of the First Coast for the duration of the war. Though no battles were fought in Jacksonville proper, the city changed hands several times between Union and Confederate forces. Warfare and the long occupation left the city disrupted after the war.
During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, Jacksonville and nearby St. Augustine became popular winter resorts for the rich and famous. Visitors arrived by steamboat and later by railroad. President Grover Cleveland attended the Sub-Tropical Exposition in the city on February 22, 1888 during his trip to Florida.This highlighted the visibility of the state as a worthy place for tourism. The city's tourism, however, was dealt major blows in the late 19th century by yellow fever outbreaks. In addition, extension of the Florida East Coast Railway further south drew visitors to other areas. From 1893 to 1938 Jacksonville was the site of the Florida Old Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Home with a nearby cemetery.
Great Fire of 1901
On May 3, 1901, downtown Jacksonville was ravaged by a fire that started at a fiber factory. Known as the Great Fire of 1901, it was one of the worst disasters in Florida history and the largest urban fire in the southeastern United States. In just eight hours, it destroyed the business district and left approximately 10,000 residents homeless. It is said the glow from the flames could be seen in Savannah, Georgia, and the smoke plumes seen in Raleigh, North Carolina. Architect Henry John Klutho was a primary figure in the reconstruction of the city. More than 13,000 buildings were constructed between 1901 and 1912.
A view of Jacksonville in 1909
In the 1910s, New York--based filmmakers were attracted to Jacksonville's warm climate, exotic locations, excellent rail access, and cheap labor. Over the course of the decade, more than 30 silent film studios were established, earning Jacksonville the title of Winter Film Capital of the World. However, the emergence of Hollywood as a major film production center ended the city's film industry. One converted movie studio site, Norman Studios, remains in Arlington; It has been converted to the Jacksonville Silent Film Museum at Norman Studios.
Motion picture scene at Gaumont Studios, 1910
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Have you heard of St. Augustine, Florida.. America's Oldest City? This colonial gem is a MUST Visit if you're heading to Florida, and we're going to outline the Perfect 48-Hour Itinerary.. from Where To Stay, What To Do, and What To Eat. Make sure to leave me a comment telling me your favorite thing in the video and subscribe for more adventures from Saint Augustine and beyond !
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The Castillo ~ancient shell-walled fort (and national monument) in St. Augustine, FL
This is a Spanish fort constructed in 1672, which stood firm against English attacks and helped Spain to hold Florida for many years. It was a British stronghold during the American Revolution and later became a battery in America's coastal defense system.
The masonry fortification, oldest in the continental United States, anchored the St. Augustine defense system. The Castillo replaced the last of nine successive wooden forts which, since 1565, had affirmed Spanish dominion and protected Spanish shipping returning to Spain. The ancient cochina-shell walls are so strong that cannonballs couldn't even get through them.
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The St Augustine City Gate (collab with F S Paranormal) - Paranormal History Profile
the St Augustine City Gate (collab with F S Paranormal)
On July 20, 2010, We Traveled to St. Augustine Florida, and one of our stops, after a local ghost walk, was the City Gates of St. Augustine. In this video we will cover the history, folklore, paranormal claims, why we believe the location is haunted, and our personal experiences.
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