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		In 1565, Pedro Menendez founded the City of St. Augustine, which is the nation's oldest permanently occupied European settlement. Accompanied by 1,500 soldiers and colonists, Menendez and the early settlers faced the task of building a new life for themselves. The town was to serve very important functions for the Spanish Empire, for it defended the primary trade route to Europe. Early settlement buildings such as the Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse, the Oldest House, and the Old Jail remain to this day. Following a pirate attack on St. Augustine in 1668, the Queen Regent Mariana made the commitment to have the Castillo de San Marcos built to defend the city and port.		Fort Matanzas The Castillo de San Marcos The Old Jail The Oldest House The Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse The Spanish Quarter BUILDING THE OLDEST CITY

010.gif 011.gif	Flying High Over the Schoolhouse Design your own flag to fly over the historic buildings of the oldest city (2 pages)	010.pdf 011.pdf
039.gif	The St. Augustine Story Do you know the history of our grat city? See how much you can recite from memory	039.pdf
017.gif	Close Your Eyes and Imagine... As you explore St. Augustine, try to imagine life as it was over 300 years ago	017.pdf
021.gif	A Letter from the Past The Castillo de San Marcos has just been completed, write a letter describing St. Augustine in the 1700's	021.pdf
025.gif	Message in a Bottle You have landed in LaFlorida in 1763, what would you tell your friends about St. Augustine?	025.pdf
034.gif	Planning Around Town If you could rebuild the city from its very beginning, what might it look like?	034.pdf
041.gif	Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse Story Roll Construct a piece of history and tell a dynamic story of old St. Augustine	041.pdf
046.gif	St. Augustine Layer by Layer Uncover artifacts -- objects made and used by humans -- from different periods of our history	046.pdf

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