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2. Fort Mose - Wikipedia

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   Fort Mose, originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose [3] (Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose), [4] and later as Fort Mose, [2] or alternatively, Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa, [5] is a former Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida. In 1738, the governor of Spanish Florida, Manuel de Montiano, had the fort established as a free black ...

3. Florida East Coast Railway - Wikipedia

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   Flagler realized that the key to developing Florida was a solid transportation system. At the time, St. Augustine was served by the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Halifax River Railway (JStA&HR), a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway that began service in 1883 between South Jacksonville and St. Augustine. While the JStA&HR was used to transport ...

4. St. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia

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   12-62500 [4] GNIS feature ID. 0308101 [3] Website. City of St. Augustine. St. Augustine ( / ˈɔːɡəstiːn / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville. The city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.

5. Ponce de Leon Hotel - Wikipedia

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   The Hotel Ponce de Leon, also known as The Ponce, was a luxury hotel in St. Augustine, Florida, built by millionaire developer and Standard Oil co-founder Henry M. Flagler. Built between 1885–1887, the winter resort opened in January 1888. The hotel was designed in the Spanish Renaissance Revival style as the first major project of the New ...

6. History of St. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia

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   t. e. St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the continental United States, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. The Spanish Crown issued an asiento to Menéndez, signed by King Philip II on March 20, 1565, granting him various titles, including that of adelantado ...

7. Timeline of Pinellas County, Florida history - Wikipedia

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   The $250,000,000 real estate investor Ben Mallah paid cash for this $16.5 million waterfront estate. [25] by far the most ever paid for a residential property in the Tampa Bay area. Originally built by Ryan Howard , nicknamed the Big Piece ", is an American former professional baseball first baseman .