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The oldest permanent European settlement in North America was not Jamestown, but rather St. Augustine.

Labor Day weekend event honors Native Americans already resident when Pedro Menéndez y Avila landed in the New World to found the Spanish settlement.

A short span of coastline in northern Florida plays host to both the beginning and the end for the interaction of native cultures with European arrivals.

If Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon read the history book Images of America: Port Charlotte would he have envisioned a retirement haven around Charlotte Harbor, Fla?

A study of the early history of Florida might well give the superstitious mind the impression that Florida was under a curse or was capable of placing curses on the first

The elegant inns of St. Augustine are the perfect retreat for exploring the oldest Spanish settlement in the United States.

St. Augustine, Florida was established long before the pilgrims, the War of Independence or the statute of liberty.