Mission Nombre de Dios
On this site, September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed with a band of settlers to found St. Augustine, first permanent Christian settlement in the United States. Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, Spanish diocesan Priest, offered here the first Mass in the Nation's first parish. The Spanish pioneers named this landing site Nombre de Dios - Name of God - and founded here the first Mission in the United States.
Marker is at the intersection of North Ocean Boulevard (State Highway A1A) and Old Mission Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Ocean Boulevard.
Courtesy hmdb.org
