At 450 plus years, St. Augustine, Florida is America’s oldest city. There’s a lot to recommend in a city that is that old ― history, ancient (for the states) architecture, Spanish culture and, of course, ghosts. A city that old has a lot of history to haunt ― a lot of death and despair to …
St. Augustine
St. Augustine, Florida Lays its Claim to “Oldest” Fame
In 1607, a small band of settlers founded the first permanent English outpost in the Americas, Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia. At that time, another town, St. Augustine, already had existed since 1565 in a different part of the New World – making it the oldest continuously occupied European community in the country. Given …
