St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum

Our story begins over two centuries before the birth of our nation, and over four decades before English settlers landed at Jamestown. The story, which like America itself is both maritime and multicultural, begins with the founding of the Spanish ...

St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum

A light that has guided St. Augustine for 137 years, this historic stie displays the varied lives that have been part of the town's history. This site not only includes a lighthouse but a museum with an array of tours ...

St. Augustine Alligator Farm

What’s more Floridian than an alligator? The St. Augustine Alligator Farm has been a local institution since 1893. Originally created to showcase reptiles and ostriches to Gilded Age tourists, the Alligator Farm has grown into an accredited zoo the entire ...

Old Town St. Augustine

Established as a European style presidio in 1572, Old Town St. Augustine included a fort and earthen defense line. Constructed when the settlement moved from Anastasia Island, colonists situated Old Town St. Augustine south of the present day plaza, bounded ...

St. Augustine Pirate and Treasure Museum

For history buffs, there is a circa 1710 blunderbuss. For popular culture fans, there's Jack Sparrow's sword.

At the Pirate Museum in downtown St. Augustine, you can stand on the deck of a replicated pirate ship, light a reproduction of ...

St. Augustine Church

Striking in its classical simplicity, this little frame church 30x50 has stood on the New Diggings Hill since its construction in 1844-47 as a place of worship for the Irish mining families of the vicinity. A beautiful example of Greco-Gothic ...

Unearthing Florida: St. Augustine

While we know that St. Augustine is America’s oldest city, traces of the very first settlement there have only recently been discovered.

In 1565, Spaniard Pedro Menendez landed in St. Augustine with 800 people. He hastily moved into a Timucua ...

First Thanksgiving-St. Augustine

52 years after Juan Ponce de Leon walked ashore on Florida’s east coast -- and over five decades before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony -- Pedro Menendez de Aviles (Ah-vee-lays) stepped onshore at what would become the city of St. ...

El Camino Royale-St. Augustine

TWO OF FLORIDA’S MOST HISTORIC CITIES—TALLAHASSEE AND ST. AUGUSTINE—HAVE BEEN CONNECTED COMMERCIALLY FOR NEARLY 400 YEARS.

AFTER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ST. AUGUSTINE IN 1565, SPANISH MISSIONARIES LED EXPANSION WESTWARD, CREATING A CHAIN OF OVER 100 MISSION SETTLEMENTS ACROSS NORTHERN FLORIDA, ...

National Historic Landmark - St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District

St. Augustine, founded as a Spanish military base in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. Laid out around a central plaza, the present streets are all in the original town plan.