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The first known owner of the home was Antonio De Mesa. He was a Royal Treasury guard who came to St. Augustine around 1740. The original home was a one-story, one room structure made of coquina, as many homes were during the First Spanish Period (1565-1763) in St. Augustine. De Mesa lived there with his wife and seven children until 1763, when ...
St. John's Road in St. Augustine is the main access road for Mount St. Benedict, one of the notable historic sites in Trinidad and Tobago. On the mount, one can find a Catholic Church along with a monastery and a factory where yogurt is made. On this road, there is also the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church.
A fixture in downtown St. Augustine for a half-century, the longtime restaurant and bar was a major player in city's nightlife. After 43 years, downtown St. Augustine restaurant closes its doors ...
Edwin Wiley Grove (December 27, 1850 – January 27, 1927), commonly known as E. W. Grove, was an American business magnate, entrepreneur, and self-made millionaire.He founded the Paris Medicine Company, creating and producing its most well-known patent medicine products, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic and Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets.
Flagler returned to St. Augustine in 1885 and made Smith an offer. If Smith could raise $50,000, Flagler would invest $150,000 and they would build a hotel together. Smith couldn't come up with the funds, [ 7 ] so Flagler began construction of the 540-room Ponce de León Hotel by himself, spending several times his original estimate.
Pizza Time is a pizzeria located in St. Augustine, Florida considered the second-highest rated pizzeria in the United States as of 2015 after Juliana's Pizza. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The pizzeria opened in 2005.
St. Augustine, founded by Spain in 1565, is the oldest permanent European settlement on the mainland of North America, north of Mexico. Its long colonial history extends to 1822, when Spanish East Florida was annexed to the United States as part of the Florida Territory. The city core's street plan, with narrow streets, dates to the first ...