Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
View of the Matanzas Bay from the Castillo de San Marcos United States Topographical Map of St. Augustine, Florida. Matanzas Bay is a saltwater bay in St. Johns County, Florida; the entrance to the bay from the South Atlantic is via St. Augustine inlet. Technically this stretch of water running along the city's waterfront is part of the ...
English: Aerial view over the Matanzas River of Castillo de San Marcos St. Augustine, Florida. Captured on Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 5:56pm. Captured on Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 5:56pm. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America .
In 1740, a British invasion force from Fort Frederica, Georgia blockaded this inlet, the southernmost access for boat travel between St. Augustine and Havana, Cuba. Shortly thereafter, in 1742, a coquina stone tower 50 feet (15 m) square by 30 feet (9.1 m) high, now called Fort Matanzas, was built by the Spanish authorities in Florida to ...
Fort Matanzas was built by the Spanish in 1742 to guard Matanzas Inlet, the southern mouth of the Matanzas River, which could be used as a rear entrance to the city of St. Augustine. Such an approach avoided St. Augustine's primary defense system, centered at Castillo de San Marcos.
The Matanzas River is 23 miles (37 km) in length [2] and extends from St. Augustine Inlet southward to approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) south of the Matanzas Inlet on the southern tip of Anastasia Island. The waterbody connects ocean inlets in the Port of St. Augustine and at the Fort Matanzas National Monument. The Matanzas River does not ...
February 5, 2014 (184 San Marco Ave. St. Augustine: 46: Sanchez Homestead: Sanchez Homestead: October 12, 2001 (7270 Old State Road 207: Elkton: 47: Sanchez Powder House Site
Fort Matanzas National Monument, a Spanish colonial-era fort built in 1740–1742, [3] is located at the southern end of the island [4] on Rattlesnake Island in the Intracoastal waterway within the park boundaries; [5] it was designed to protect St. Augustine from attack via the Matanzas River.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate