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St. Augustine, Florida
Nickname: Ancient City, Continental United States' Oldest City
Location in St. Johns County and the state of Florida
Coordinates: 29°53′39.35″N 81°18′47.55″W / 29.8942639, -81.3132083
Country United States
State Florida
County St. Johns
Established 1565
Government
- Mayor Joseph L. Boles
Area
- City 10.7 sq mi (27.8 km²)
- Land 2.4 sq mi (21.7 km²)
- Water 2.4 sq mi (6.1 km²) 21.99%
Elevation 5 ft (1.52 m)
Population (2004)
- City 12,157
- Density 1,384.9/sq mi (534.7/km²)
- Metro 1,277,997
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Website: http://www.ci.st-augustine.fl.us/
Five flags have flown over the city since 1565. From left: U.S., Confederate, Spanish (after 1785) British, and the Spanish (before 1785) Burgundy Cross
Map of St. Augustine depicting Sir Francis Drake's attack on the city by Baptista Boazio, 1589
Castillo de San Marcos
St. Augustine is the county seat of St. Johns County GR6, Florida, in the United States. It is the oldest continuously occupied European-established city, and the oldest port, in the continental United States.[1] St. Augustine lies in a region of Florida known as The First Coast, which extends from Amelia Island in the north, south to Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Palm Coast. According to the 2000 census, the city population was 11,592; in 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau was 12,157 [1].
History
St. Augustine was founded by the Spanish in 1565.[1] The first Christian worship service held in a permanent settlement in the continental United States was a Catholic Mass celebrated in St. Augustine. A few settlements were founded prior to St. Augustine but all failed, including the original Pensacola colony in West Florida, founded by Tristán de Luna y Arellano in 1559, with the area abandoned in 1561 due to hurricanes, famine and warring tribes, and Fort Caroline in what is today Jacksonville, Florida, in 1564. The city was founded by the Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on September 8, 1565. Menéndez first sighted land on August 28, the feast day of Augustine of Hippo, and consequently named the settlement San Agustín. Martín de Argüelles was born here one year later in 1566, the first child of European ancestry to be born in what is now the continental United States. This came 21 years before the English settlement at Roanoke Island in Virginia Colony, and 42 years before the successful settlements of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Jamestown, Virginia. In all the territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, only (European) settlements in Puerto Rico are older than St. Augustine, with the oldest being Caparra, founded in 1508, whose inhabitants relocated and founded San Juan, in 1521.
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