Historic St. Augustine, FL.

This starts a two day sightseeing tour of
Historic St. Augustine, Florida.
This town has a lot of history.
Today we seen the Oldest Wooden School House, Fountaun Of Youth,
Castillo de San Marcos (Fort) National Monument and walked through
some of the town.

This first group of pictures (15) are
taken at the Fountain Of Youth Archaeological Park of National Heritage.
The wall is made of clam shells, built this way so it would be hard to climb over. The Fountain Of Youth Park exhibits evidence of the early Timucuan Indian inhabitants as well as evidence and artifacts of the first Spanish colony.
The park memorializes Juan Ponce de Leon and his
landing in this vicinity in 1513. The site where Pedro Menendez would return 52 years later to found the first city, St. Augustine.

This is an old

rusty cannon

on a base of

clam shells.

Doesn't John look younger??

This tree was just before we entered

the Fountain of Youth. We were on

the sightseeing trolley at this time so

I could not get the top of it. It is a Live Oak well over 600 years old.















This is Ripley's Believe It Or Not

Museum. We did not go through it.

Yet!!

Going to Castillo de San Marcos Fort.

The Castillo was designed for war.

In 1672, the Castillo de San Marcos was begun and took 23 years to complete. Originally the fort was covered with white plaster.

The towers in the four corners were plastered red.

The fort was built of coquina (ko-KEE-na), a locally quarried soft shellrock. Coquina was easily shaped by artisans and did not become brittle and crumble under cannon fire. The fort, the city gate and many homes in St. Augustine were made of coquina which is still evident today.

As we walked through the town there were many bed and breakfast and

shops of all kind.

This is the Oldest Wooden School House in the USA.

The authentic building is in its original state.

Built prior to 1763.

This was the kitchen which was in a separate building.

This is a box you were put into if

you misbehaved.

This was the school room and the living quarters for the teacher

and family were upstairs. It cost 25 cents to go to school and if your folks didn't have the money then you were to bring milk or wood for the teacher and family.

Donna in the mediation room.....guess you know what room

that is??????????

Continued........Our Tour of Historic St. Augustine, Florida.

Very Interesting Town.