St. Augustine, FL
The nations oldest city.
Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin
in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years
before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation's
first enduring settlement. St. Augustine can boast that it contains the only urban nucleus in the
United States whose street pattern and architectural ambiance reflect Spanish origins.