The Oldest City

St. Augustine, Florida, through the lives and events of those who helped make it the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.
Twenty four 1,000 word accounts of historic figures, like Spain's admirals Ponce de Leon and Pedro Menendez, England's Francis Drake, James Oglethorpe and Patrick Tonyn, the Seminole War Chief Osceola, and Standard Oil baron Henry Flagler, creating an American Riviera in St. Augustine, and events like the 23-year construction of the Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fortress on North America - still standing today after more than 300 years, and the first underground railroad running not to the north in the 19th century but to the south in the 17th century, and creation of the first free black settlement in today's America for those escaped slaves given freedom in Spanish La Florida, Fort Mose.
Accounts as well of the cultures the Africans, Indians, Pirates, Menorcans who played roles in the enduring spirit that kept St. Augustine going through 450 years of history.
Before Jamestown. Before Plymouth, 200 years before the American Revolution, St. Augustine was a player on the world stage as the Spanish Empire's North American capital from its founding in 1565 to secure Spain's claim to this new world.
This e-book is an extension of St. Augustine Bedtime Stories, two series of twelve booklets each, each booklet capturing the story of a famous person or event in St. Augustine's history. The series are boxed to fit on the bed table for quick reads before bed.
Jamestown celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2007. Eight years later The Oldest City celebrated its 450th - four and a half centuries of lives and events that make it the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States.

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