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Anastasia State Park is a 1,600-acre (6.5 km 2) state park in Florida, United States. Its location is on a peninsula on Anastasia Island across Matanzas Bay from downtown St. Augustine along the Atlantic coastal plain. This park has a variety of wildlife, birds and plants in a setting of beaches, tidal salt marsh, and marine and upland hammock.
Alpine Groves Park; Al Wilkie Park; Armstrong Park; Barnes Family Park; Bird Island Park; BMX Track; Boating Club Road Boat Ramp; Butler Park - East; Butler Park - West
St. Augustine Beach is located at (29.843657, –81.272206 [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 square miles (5.0 km 2), all land.
The first European known to have explored the coasts of Florida was the Spanish explorer and governor of Puerto Rico, Juan Ponce de León, who likely ventured in 1513 as far north as the vicinity of the future St. Augustine, naming the peninsula he believed to be an island "La Florida" and claiming it for the Spanish crown.
Fort Mose (originally known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose [3] [Royal Grace of Saint Teresa of Mose], [4] and later as Fort Mose, [2] or alternatively Fort Moosa or Fort Mossa [5]) is a former Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida.
Modern map of trail across northern Florida used by the Spanish Map from 1750 of trails used by Spanish between St. Augustine and the Apalachee Province. El Camino Real (The Royal Road) is the name (rough English translation: The King's Highway) that the Spanish gave to a trail they cleared in the 1680s, mostly over the traditional trails of Native Americans, from St. Augustine westward to the ...