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Military History. The Museum of Weapons & Early American History was located in St. Augustine, Florida in the United States. The museum, located at the intersection of King and Granada streets, was home to a collection of guns, swords, pictures and lithographs dating from 1500 to 1900. The museum also included collections of muskets, shipwreck ...
History of Florida. 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 ...
March 11, 1971 [ 1] Designated NHL. May 31, 1973 [ 2] The Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, also known simply as Fort Taylor, is a Florida State Park and National Historic Landmark centered on a Civil War -era fort located near the southern tip of Key West, Florida .
Designated NHL. November 7, 1973 [ 1] Dade Battlefield Historic State Park is a state park located on County Road 603 between Interstate 75 (Exit 314) and U.S. Route 301 in Sumter County, Florida. The 80-acre (32 ha) park includes 40 acres (160,000 m 2) of pine flatwoods and a live oak hammock. Also called the Dade Massacre site, it preserves ...
Lincolnville Historic District (formerly known as Little Africa) is a neighborhood in St. Augustine, Florida established by freedmen following the American Civil War and located on the southwest peninsula of the "nation's oldest city." It was designated as an historic district in 1991 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
October 15, 1924. The Castillo de San Marcos ( Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St. Augustine, Florida . It was designed by the Spanish engineer Ignacio Daza, with construction beginning in 1672, 107 years after the city's founding ...
Florida state militia took the fort at St. Augustine from a small U. S. Army garrison (one soldier) on January 7, 1861. Three days later the state of Florida seceded from the United States. Union troops reoccupied the city on March 11, 1862, putting St. Augustine under Union control. The city was never retaken by Confederate forces.
St. Francis Barracks came under control of the United States Army when the United States gained possession of Florida in 1821. The Barracks would remain an active U.S. Army installation until it was deactivated in 1900, with the exception of one year between 1861 and 1862 when it, like the rest of St. Augustine was under control of the Confederate States of America.