People sit by the water in St. Augustine, Florida, March 1, 2023. More than half a century before the Pilgrims set up a colony at Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts, and 42 years before the first permanent English settlement in North America was founded at Jamestown in Virginia, the Spanish established the city of St. Augustine in the far northeastern corner of Florida.
And yet, despite its status as the oldest continuously occupied settlement founded by non-Indigenous residents in the United States, St. Augustine is rarely mentioned in American history classes.
“I think it’s because it’s Spanish colonial history that we’re talking […]
Click here to visit source. www.voanews.com