Majesty of St. Augustine

by Steven Brooke

Book Overview

Founded by Spain in 1565, fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, St. Augustine, Florida, is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the United States. Only the Castillo de San Marcos, which was completed in the late seventeenth century, survived two centuries of periodic attacks by British forces to remain an important historic feature today.

Though there were over three hundred original buildings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158980225X
• ISBN13: 9781589802254
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"