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| name                     = St. Augustine
| native_name              = {{native name|es|San Agustín}}
| settlement_type          = [[City (Florida)|City]]
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| image_caption            = Top, left to right: [[Castillo de San Marcos]], [[St. Augustine Light]], [[Flagler College]], [[Lightner Museum]], statue near the [[Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine]], [[St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park]], [[Old St. Johns County Jail]]
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| nicknames                 = Ancient City, Old City
| named_for                = [[Augustine of Hippo|Saint Augustine of Hippo]]
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| subdivision_name1        = [[Florida]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[St. Johns County, Florida|St. Johns]]
| established_title        = Established
| established_date         = {{start date and age|1565|9|8}}
| founder                  = [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]]
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| government_type          = [[Council-manager government|Commissioner-Manager]]
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| leader_title             = [[Mayor]]
| leader_name              = Nancy Sikes-Kline
| leader_title1            = [[Vice Mayor]]
| leader_name1             = Roxanne Horvath
| leader_title2            = [[City Council|Commissioners]]
| leader_name2             = Barbara Blonder,<br>Cynthia Garris, and<br>Jim Springfield
| leader_title3            = [[City Manager]]
| leader_name3             = David Birchim
| leader_title4            = [[City Clerk]]
| leader_name4             = Darlene Galambos
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| postal_code              = 32080, 32084, 32085, 32086, 32095, 32082, 32092
| area_codes                = [[Area codes 904 and 324|904, 324]]
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'''St. Augustine''' ({{IPAc-en|'|O|g|@|s|t|i:|n}} {{respell|AW|gə|steen}}; {{langx|es|San Agustín}} {{IPA|es|san aɣusˈtin|}}) is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[St. Johns County, Florida]], United States. Located 40 miles (64&nbsp;km) south of downtown [[Jacksonville, Florida|Jacksonville]], the city is on the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic coast]] of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish settlers, it is the [[List of North American settlements by year of foundation|oldest continuously inhabited]] European-established settlement in what is now the [[contiguous United States]].

St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]], Florida's [[List of colonial governors of Florida|first governor]]. He named the settlement ''San Agustín'', because his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] of [[Augustine of Hippo|St. Augustine]].<ref name="College1981">{{cite book |last=Hennesey |first=James J. |title=American Catholics: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States: A History of the Roman Catholic Community in the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAjuDMetOYcC&pg=PA11 |url-status=live |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York |date=December 10, 1981 |page=11 |access-date=October 27, 2015 |isbn=978-0-19-802036-3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503033358/https://books.google.com/books?id=tAjuDMetOYcC&pg=PA11 |archive-date=May 3, 2016}}</ref> The city served as the capital of [[Spanish Florida]] for over 200 years. It became the capital of [[British East Florida]] in 1763 and continued as the capital after the [[Treaty of Versailles (1783)#Treaty with Spain|1783 Treaty of Versailles]] in the Second Spanish Period.

Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, and St. Augustine was designated one of the two alternating capitals of the [[Florida Territory]], the other being [[Pensacola, Florida|Pensacola]], upon ratification of the [[Adams–Onís Treaty]] in 1821. The [[Florida National Guard]] made the city its headquarters that same year. The territorial government moved and made [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]] the permanent capital of Florida in 1824.<ref name="Montès2014">{{cite book |last1=Montès |first1=Christian |title=American Capitals: A Historical Geography |year=2014 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-08051-2 |page=132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi5nAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT132}}</ref>

St. Augustine is part of Florida's [[First Coast]] region and the [[Jacksonville metropolitan area]]. It had a population of 14,329 at the 2020 census, up from 12,975 at the 2010 census. Since the late 19th century, St. Augustine's distinctive historical character has made the city a tourist attraction. [[Castillo de San Marcos]], the city's 17th-century Spanish fort, continues to attract tourists.<ref>{{cite web |author=Staff |title=Coquina {{!}} The rock that saved St. Augustine) |url=https://www.nps.gov/foma/learn/nature/coquina.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304162318/https://www.nps.gov/foma/learn/nature/coquina.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |date=April 10, 2020 |access-date=December 6, 2022 |website=www.nps.gov}}</ref> [[St. George Street (St. Augustine)|St. George Street]] is a major [[Pedestrian zone|pedestrian street]] that runs through the downtown area and includes over 30 historic houses and tourist attractions.<ref name="Brooke2005">{{cite book |last1=Brooke |first1=Steven |title=The Majesty of St. Augustine |date=2005 |publisher=Pelican Publishing |isbn=978-1-4556-0819-5 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZRAQ-b7zBsC&pg=PA20}}</ref>

==History==
{{main|History of St. Augustine, Florida}}

=== Early exploration ===
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. He named the peninsula, which he believed to be an island, {{lang|es|La Florida}} and claimed it for the [[Spanish Empire|Spanish crown]].<ref name="Steigman2005">{{cite book |last=Steigman |first=Jonathan D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTjoOz7WMiIC&pg=PA33 |title=La Florida Del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America |date=25 September 2005 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5257-8 |page=33}}</ref><ref name="Lawson2008">{{cite book |last=Lawson |first=Edward W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nU7JNwAACAAJ |title=The Discovery of Florida and Its Discoverer Juan Ponce de Leon |date=1 June 2008 |publisher=Kessinger Publishing |isbn=978-1-4367-0883-8 |edition=Reprint of 1946 |pages=29–32}}</ref>

According to a letter written by Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, the Spanish arrived on September 8, 1565, with soldiers, sailors, priests, and settlers. Francisco López, the chaplain of the Indies Fleet led by Captain General Don Pedro Menéndez de Aviles, described how they named the area “St. Augustine” because they first sighted land on the feast day of Saint Augustine. The Spanish held a religious ceremony and a meal with local Native Americans, which some historians consider the first communal Thanksgiving in what is now the United States. They tried to establish friendly relations with the Indigenous people and building a fort, houses, and a church. His letter gives a personal account of the founding and shows the early Spanish goals of settlement, defense, and religious mission.<ref>Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, The Founding of St. Augustine, Early Americas Digital Archive, University of Maryland. https://eada.lib.umd.edu/text-entries/founding-of-st-augustine/</ref>

===Founding by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés===
{{main|Spanish Florida}}
Founded in 1565 by the Spanish ''[[conquistador]]'' [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]], St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the contiguous United States.<ref name=nhl>{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/nr//travel/geo-flor/24.htm| title=Florida: St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District| website=nps.gov| publisher=National Park Service| access-date=May 27, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430164443/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/geo-flor/24.htm| archive-date=April 30, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2015/02/28/389682893/not-so-fast-jamestown-st-augustine-was-here-first|title=Not So Fast, Jamestown: St. Augustine Was Here First|website=NPR|date=February 28, 2015 |access-date=November 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105232732/https://www.npr.org/2015/02/28/389682893/not-so-fast-jamestown-st-augustine-was-here-first|archive-date=November 5, 2019|url-status=live |last1=Haden |first1=Peter }}</ref> It is the second-oldest continuously inhabited city of European origin in a United States territory, after [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]] (founded in 1521).<ref name="Thompson2014">{{cite book|first=Linda|last=Thompson|title=Exploring The Territories of the United States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D8LYAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA34|date=May 30, 2014|publisher=Britannica Digital Learning|isbn=978-1-62513-185-0|page=34}}</ref>

In [[Timeline of Florida History|1560]], King [[Philip II of Spain|Philip II]] of Spain appointed Menéndez as Captain General, and his brother Bartolomé Menéndez as Admiral, of the Fleet of the Indies.<ref name="Lowery1911">{{cite book|first=Woodbury|last=Lowery|title=The Spanish settlements within the present limits of the United States: Florida, 1562-1574|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_XGGAAAAIAAJ|year=1911|publisher=G.P. Putnam|page=144}}</ref> Thus Pedro Menéndez commanded the [[galleon]]s of the great ''Armada de la Carrera'', or [[Spanish treasure fleet|Spanish Treasure Fleet]], on their voyage from the Caribbean and Mexico to Spain, and determined the routes they followed.

In early 1564, he asked permission to go to Florida to search for ''La Concepcion'', the ''galeon Capitana'', or flagship, of the New Spain fleet commanded by his son, Admiral Juan Menéndez. The ship had been lost in September 1563 when a hurricane scattered the fleet as it was returning to Spain, at the latitude of Bermuda off the coast of South Carolina.<ref name="Turner2015">{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Sam |title=Menéndez anguishes in prison as son is lost at sea |url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/family/2015/07/18/menndez-anguishes-prison-son-lost-sea/30305069/ |access-date=August 9, 2020 |work=Tallahassee Democrat |date=July 18, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131004026/http://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/family/2015/07/18/menndez-anguishes-prison-son-lost-sea/30305069/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin= |archive-date=January 31, 2016}}</ref> The Crown repeatedly refused his request.

The Crown eventually approached Menéndez to fit out an expedition to Florida<ref name="PickettPickett2011">{{cite book |last1=Pickett |first1=Margaret F. |last2=Pickett |first2=Dwayne W. |title=The European Struggle to Settle North America: Colonizing Attempts by England, France and Spain, 1521–1608 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vTkyqDHcBvsC&pg=PA84 |publisher=McFarland |year=2011 |page=84 |isbn=978-0-7864-6221-6}}</ref> on the condition that he explore and settle the region as King Philip's ''[[adelantado]]'', and eliminate the [[Huguenot]] French,<ref>Lowery 1911, p.100</ref> whom the Catholic Spanish considered to be dangerous heretics.<ref>Lowery 1911, p.105</ref>

Menéndez was in a race to reach Florida before the French captain [[Jean Ribault]],<ref name="HendersonMormino1991">{{cite book|first=Eugene|last=Lyon|editor-first=Gary|editor-last=Mormino|others=Ann L Henderson|title=Spanish Pathways in Florida: 1492-1992/Los Caminos Espanoles En LA Florida 1492-1992|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QYUhtC2u2AUC|access-date=20 November 2012|edition=1st|year=1991|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|language=en, es|isbn=978-1-56164-003-4|page=100|chapter=Pedro Menéndez de Avilés}}</ref> who was on a mission to secure [[Fort Caroline]]. On August 28, 1565, the feast day of [[St. Augustine of Hippo]], Menéndez's crew finally sighted land; the Spaniards continued sailing northward along the coast from their landfall, investigating every inlet and plume of smoke along the shore. On September 4, they encountered four French vessels anchored at the mouth of a large river (the [[St. Johns River|St. Johns]]), including Ribault's flagship, ''La Trinité''. The two fleets met in a brief skirmish, but it was not decisive. Menéndez sailed southward and landed again on September 8, formally declared possession of the land in the name of Philip II, and officially founded the settlement he named ''San Agustín'' (Saint Augustine).<ref name="Lyon1983">{{cite book|author=Eugene Lyon|title=The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Spanish Conquest Of, 1565-1568|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W_gdHQAACAAJ|date=May 1983|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-0777-9|pages=112–115}}</ref><ref name="Coker1993">{{cite book|author=William S. Coker|title=The Spanish Missionary Heritage of the United States: Selected Papers and Commentaries from the November 1990 Quincentenary Symposium|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RY1aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA26|year=1993|publisher=United States Department of the Interior{{!}}National Park Service|page=26|chapter=The Missions of Florida, 1513-1763}}</ref> Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, the chaplain of the expedition, celebrated the first Thanksgiving [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Mass]] on the grounds.<ref name="Chatelain1941">{{cite book|author=Verne Elmo Chatelain|title=The Defenses of Spanish Florida, 1565 to 1763|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qvQUAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Men%C3%A9ndez%20himself%20landed%22|year=1941|publisher=Carnegie Institution of Washington|page=41}}</ref><ref name=Bushnell1987>{{cite book|author=Amy Turner Bushnell|title=Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eIMcv-E7C0C&pg=PA37|year=1987|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1712-0|page=37}}</ref><ref name="Buescher2014">{{cite news |first1=John B. |last1=Buescher |title=America's First Mass |url=https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2014/05/13/americas-first-mass/ |website=Catholicworldreport.com |publisher=Catholic World Report |access-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214154440/https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2014/05/13/americas-first-mass/ |archive-date=14 December 2019 |date=13 May 2014}}</ref> The formal [[Franciscan]] outpost, [[Mission Nombre de Dios]], was founded at the landing point, perhaps the first mission in what would become the [[Contiguous United States|continental United States]].<ref>Herreros, Mauricio ''Spiritual Florida: A Guide to Retreat Centers and Religious Sites in Florida'', p. 25</ref>

[[File:Great house of Seloy.jpg|thumb|Pedro Menéndez de Avilés moved his settlers to the village of the Seloy tribe of the Timucua. Their chief gave them the Great House, a structure able to hold several hundred people. Around this meeting house the Spanish dug a moat and added fortifications.]]
The mission served nearby villages of the [[Mocama]], a [[Timucua]] group, and was at the center of an important [[chiefdom]] in the late 16th and 17th century. The settlement was built in the former Timucua village of Seloy; this site was chosen for its strategic location facing the waterways of St. Augustine bay with their abundant resources, an eminently suitable site for water communications and defense.<ref name="Deagan2008">{{cite book |last1=Deagan |first1=Kathleen |title=Historical Archaeology at the Fountain of Youth Park Site |date=2008 |pages=1, 3, 11 |url=https://www.flagler.edu/media/documents/campus-community/historic-st-augustine-research-institute/funded-research/2002-Deagan-FOY-report-reduced.pdf |quote=The site faces the confluence of the old St. Augustine inlet, the entrance to the Matanzas River to the south and the entrance to the Tolomato (or North River) to the north. Such a position offered not only a series of rich ecotones, but also an excellent site for water travel, communication and defense.}}</ref>
 
A French attack on St. Augustine was thwarted by a violent squall that ravaged the French naval forces. Taking advantage of this, Menéndez marched his troops overland to Fort Caroline on the [[St. Johns River]], about {{convert|30|mi|km|-1}} north. The Spanish easily overwhelmed the lightly defended French garrison, which had been left with only a skeleton crew of 20 soldiers and about 100 others, killing most of the men and sparing about 60 women and children. The bodies of the victims were hung in trees with the inscription: "Hanged, not as Frenchmen, but as "Lutherans" ([[heretics]])".<ref name="Laudonnière1853">{{cite book|author=René Goulaine de Laudonnière|title=L'histoire notable de la Floride: situèe es Indes Occidentales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0-M8AAAAYAAJ|access-date=November 22, 2012|year=1853|publisher=P. Jannet|pages=218–219}}</ref><ref name="Voltaire1773">{{cite book|author=Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire|title=Essais sur les Moeurs et l'esprit des Nations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpMBAAAAMAAJ|year=1773|page=75}}</ref> Menéndez renamed the fort ''San Mateo'' and marched back to St. Augustine, where he discovered that the shipwrecked survivors from the French ships had come ashore to the south of the settlement. A Spanish patrol encountered the remnants of the French force, and took them prisoner. Menéndez accepted their surrender, but then [[Massacre at Matanzas Inlet|executed]] all of them except a few professing Catholics and some Protestant workers with useful skills, at what is now known as [[Matanzas Inlet]] (''Matanzas'' is [[Spanish language|Spanish]] for "slaughters").<ref name="HendersonCommittee1989">{{cite book|first1=Richard R.|last1=Henderson|author2=United States. National Park Service|title=A Preliminary inventory of Spanish colonial resources associated with National Park Service units and national historic landmarks, 1987|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIkIAQAAMAAJ|access-date=November 20, 2012|date=March 1989|publisher=United States Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites, for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service|page=87|isbn=9780911697032}}</ref> The site is very near the [[national monument (United States)|national monument]] [[Fort Matanzas]], built in 1740–1742 by the Spanish.

===Invasions by pirates and enemies of Spain===
Succeeding governors of the province maintained a peaceful coexistence with the local [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], allowing the isolated outpost of St. Augustine some stability for a few years. On May 28 and 29, 1586, soon after the [[Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)|Anglo-Spanish War]] began between England and Spain, the English privateer [[Francis Drake|Sir Francis Drake]] [[Raid on St. Augustine|sacked and burned]] St. Augustine.<ref name="Tucker2012">{{cite book|first=Spencer|last=Tucker|title=Almanac of American Military History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TO2mx314ST0C&pg=PA54|date=November 21, 2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-530-3|page=54|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226181411/https://books.google.com/books?id=TO2mx314ST0C&pg=PA54|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The approach of his large fleet obliged Governor [[Pedro Menéndez Márquez]] and the townspeople to evacuate the settlement. When the English got ashore, they seized some artillery pieces and a royal strongbox containing gold [[ducat]]s (which was the garrison payroll).<ref name="Sugden2012">{{cite book|first=John|last=Sugden|title=Sir Francis Drake|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2CEgmN-3VcMC&pg=PA198|date=April 24, 2012|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1-4481-2950-8|page=198|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226170448/https://books.google.com/books?id=2CEgmN-3VcMC&pg=PA198|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The killing of their sergeant major by the Spanish rearguard caused Drake to order the town razed to the ground.<ref name="Konstam2011">{{cite book|first=Angus|last=Konstam|title=The Great Expedition: Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 1585–86|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UKyHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109|date=December 20, 2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-78096-233-7|page=109|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226165313/https://books.google.com/books?id=UKyHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Raab2007">{{cite book|first=James W.|last=Raab|title=Spain, Britain and the American Revolution in Florida, 1763–1783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCc8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|date=November 5, 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3213-4|page=9|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226212414/https://books.google.com/books?id=eCc8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1609 and 1611, expeditions were sent out from St. Augustine against the English colony at [[Jamestown, Virginia|Jamestown]].<ref name="Gallay2015">{{cite book|first=Alan|last=Gallay|title=Colonial Wars of North America, 1512–1763 (Routledge Revivals): An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22rbCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT326|date=June 11, 2015|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-48718-0|page=326|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226201254/https://books.google.com/books?id=22rbCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT326|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> In the second half of the 17th century, groups of Indians from the [[Province of Carolina|colony of Carolina]] conducted raids into Florida and killed the [[Franciscans|Franciscan]] priests who served at the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Spanish missions in Florida|missions]]. Requests by successive governors of the province to strengthen the [[presidio]]'s garrison and fortifications were ignored by the [[Monarchy of Spain|Spanish Crown]] which had other priorities in its vast empire. The charter of 1663 for the new Province of Carolina, issued by King [[Charles II of England]], was revised in 1665, claiming lands as far southward as 29 degrees north latitude, about 65 miles south of the existing settlement at St. Augustine.<ref name="Avalon2008">{{cite web|title=Charter of Carolina – March 24, 1663|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp|publisher=Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School|website=avalon.law.yale.edu|access-date=February 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207040908/http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp|archive-date=February 7, 2009|date=2008}}</ref><ref name="Avalon2008a">{{cite web |date=2008 |title=Charter of Carolina – June 30, 1665 |url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc04.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124015532/https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc04.asp |archive-date=January 24, 2009 |access-date=May 3, 2023 |website=Avalon Law |publisher=Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School}}</ref><ref name="Edgar1998">{{cite book|first=Walter B.|last=Edgar|title=South Carolina: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFSbwGk2szgC&pg=PA1|year=1998|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-255-4|page=1|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226200404/https://books.google.com/books?id=EFSbwGk2szgC&pg=PA1|archive-date=February 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

The English [[buccaneer]] [[Robert Searle]] sacked St. Augustine in 1668, after capturing some Spanish supply vessels bound for the settlement and holding their crews at gun point while his men hid below decks. Searle was retaliating for the Spanish destruction of the settlement of [[New Providence]] in [[the Bahamas]]. Searle and his men killed sixty people and pillaged public storehouses, churches and houses.<ref name="Latimer2009">{{cite book|first=Jon|last=Latimer|title=Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_ouD5zPZL8C&pg=PA198|date=June 1, 2009|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-03403-7|page=198|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731181243/https://books.google.com/books?id=P_ouD5zPZL8C&pg=PA198|archive-date=July 31, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> This raid and the establishment of the English settlement at [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charles Town]] spurred the Spanish Crown to finally acknowledge the vulnerability of St. Augustine to foreign incursions and strengthen the city's defenses. In 1669, [[Mariana of Austria|Queen Regent Mariana]] ordered the [[List of viceroys of New Spain|Viceroy of New Spain]] to disburse funds for the construction of a permanent masonry fortress, which began in 1672.<ref name="Raab200710–11">{{cite book|first=James W.|last=Raab|title=Spain, Britain and the American Revolution in Florida, 1763–1783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCc8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|date=November 5, 2007|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3213-4|pages=10–11|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227021831/https://books.google.com/books?id=eCc8BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|archive-date=February 27, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Before the fortress was completed, French buccaneers [[Michel de Grammont]] and [[Nicolas Brigaut]] planned an ill-fated attack in 1686 which was foiled: their ships were run aground, Grammont and his crew were lost at sea, and Brigaut was captured ashore by Spanish soldiers.<ref name="Marley-Pirates of the Americas">{{cite book |last=Marley |first=David |title=Pirates of the Americas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU6ML_VnXTwC |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, CA |date=2010 |access-date=September 12, 2017 |isbn=9781598842012}}</ref> The [[Castillo de San Marcos]] was completed in 1695, not long before an attack by [[James Moore Sr.|James Moore]]'s forces from Carolina in November, 1702. Failing to capture the fort after a [[Siege of St. Augustine (1702)|siege of 58 days]], the British set St. Augustine ablaze as they retreated.<ref name="Edgar199893">{{cite book|first=Walter B.|last=Edgar|title=South Carolina: A History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFSbwGk2szgC&pg=PA93|year=1998|publisher=University of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-255-4|page=93|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227015541/https://books.google.com/books?id=EFSbwGk2szgC&pg=PA93|archive-date=2017-02-27|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1738, the governor of Spanish Florida, [[Manuel de Montiano]], ordered a settlement be constructed two miles north of St. Augustine for the growing [[Free Negro|Free Black]] community established by [[Fugitive slaves in the United States|fugitive slaves]] who had escaped into Florida from the [[Thirteen Colonies]]. This new community, [[Fort Mose Historic State Park|Fort Mose]], would serve as a military outpost and buffer for St. Augustine, as the men accepted into Fort Mose had enlisted in the Florida militia and converted to Catholicism in exchange for their freedom.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fort Mose |url=https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/histarch/research/st-augustine/fort-mose/ |website=Florida Museum |date=August 9, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Landers |first=Jane |title=What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history |url=http://theconversation.com/what-catholic-church-records-tell-us-about-americas-earliest-black-history-109709 |website=The Conversation |date=February 27, 2019 |access-date=May 21, 2021}}</ref>

In 1740, however, St. Augustine was again besieged, this time by the governor of the British [[Province of Georgia|colony of Georgia]], General [[James Oglethorpe]], who was also unable to take the fort.<ref name="Baine2000">{{cite journal |last=Baine |first=Rodney E. |title=General James Oglethorpe and the Expedition Against St. Augustine |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |publisher=Georgia Historical Society |volume=84 |issue=2 Summer |page=198 |date=2000 |jstor=40584271}}</ref>

===Loyalist haven under British Period===
{{main|Treaty of Paris (1763)|East Florida|Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War}}
{{see also|Seven Years' War|French and Indian War|American Revolutionary War|Spain and the American Revolutionary War}}
The [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|1763 Treaty of Paris]], signed after [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]]'s victory over France and Spain during the [[Seven Years' War]], ceded Florida to Great Britain in exchange for the return of [[Havana]] and [[Manila]]. Many Spanish settlers in the region left Florida for [[Captaincy General of Cuba|Cuba]] and, because of the political sympathies of its British inhabitants, St. Augustine became a [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist]] haven during the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref name="Griffin1991108">{{cite book|first=Patricia C.|last=Griffin|title=Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768–1788|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y22GAAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=St. Augustine Historical Society|isbn=978-0-8130-1074-8|page=108|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224073922/https://books.google.com/books?id=y22GAAAAIAAJ|archive-date=2016-12-24|url-status=live}}</ref>

After the mass exodus of St. Augustinians, Great Britain sought to repopulate its new territory. The London Board of Trade advertised 20,000-acre lots to any group that would settle in Florida within ten years, with one resident per 100 acres. Pioneers who were "energetic and of good character" were given 100 acres of land and 50 additional acres for each family member they brought. Under Governor [[James Grant (British Army officer, born 1720)|James Grant]], almost three million acres of land were granted in East Florida alone. Second stories were added to existing Spanish homes and new houses were built. Cattle ranching and plantation agriculture began to thrive.<ref name="NPS2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/the-british-period.htm|title=The British Period (1763–1784): Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)|last=Augustine|website=www.nps.gov|date=2018|access-date=2019-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190616131226/https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/the-british-period.htm|archive-date=2019-06-16|url-status=live}}</ref>

During the 20-year British period, Britain took command of both the Castillo de San Marcos (renamed Fort St. Mark) and of [[Fort Matanzas National Monument|Fort Matanzas]]. They permanently stationed a small group of men at Fort Matanzas. Once war broke out, loyalist St. Augustine residents burned effigies of [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]] [[Samuel Adams]] and [[John Hancock]] in the plaza. Fort St. Mark became a training and supply base, as well as a [[prisoner-of-war camp]] where three signers of the [[United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]] and South Carolina's lieutenant governor [[Christopher Gadsden]] were held. Local militias composed of Florida, Georgia, and Carolina inhabitants formed the East Florida Rangers in 1776 and were reorganized to form the King's Rangers in 1779.<ref name="NPS2018" /> Spanish General [[Bernardo de Gálvez, 1st Viscount of Galveston|Bernardo de Gálvez]], harassed the British in West Florida and captured Pensacola. Fears that the Spanish would then move to capture St. Augustine, however, proved unfounded.<ref>{{cite web |title=The British Period (1763–1784) – Fort Matanzas National Monument |url=https://www.nps.gov/foma/learn/historyculture/the-british-period.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006082948/https://www.nps.gov/foma/learn/historyculture/the-british-period.htm |archive-date=2017-10-06 |access-date=2019-06-18 |website=U.S. National Park Service}}</ref>

The [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|1783 Treaty of Paris]], which recognized the independence of the [[Thirteen Colonies]] as the [[United States]], ceded Florida back to Spain and returned the Bahamas to Britain. As a result, some of the town's Spanish residents returned to St Augustine. Refugees from Dr. [[Andrew Turnbull (colonist)|Andrew Turnbull]]'s troubled settlement in [[New Smyrna Beach, Florida|New Smyrna]] had fled to St. Augustine in 1777, made up the majority of the city's population during British period, and remained when the Spanish Crown took control again. This group was, and still is, referred to locally as "[[Minorcans of Florida|Menorcans]]", even though it also included settlers from Italy, [[Corsica]] and the [[Greek islands]].<ref name="Landers2000">{{cite book|first=Jane G.|last=Landers|title=Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WFaWIDIJ1MEC&pg=PA41|year=2000|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-1772-3|pages=41–42|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731131526/https://books.google.com/books?id=WFaWIDIJ1MEC&pg=PA41|archive-date=2016-07-31|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Griffin1991">{{cite book|first=Patricia C.|last=Griffin|title=Mullet on the Beach: The Menorcans of Florida, 1768–1788|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y22GAAAAIAAJpg|year=1991|publisher=St. Augustine Historical Society|isbn=978-0-8130-1074-8|pages=14–21}}</ref>

===Second Spanish period===
{{Main|Treaty of Paris (1783)}}
{{See also|War of 1812|Creek War|Seminole Wars#First Seminole War}}
During the [[Spanish Florida#Second Spanish period|Second Spanish period]] (1784–1821) of Florida, Spain was dealing with [[Napoleonic Wars|invasions]] of the Iberian peninsula by [[Napoleon]]'s armies in the [[Peninsular War]], and struggled to maintain a tenuous hold on its territories in the western hemisphere as [[Spanish American wars of independence|revolution]] swept South America. The royal administration of Florida was neglected, as the province had long been regarded as an unprofitable backwater by the Crown. The United States, however, considered Florida vital to its political and military interests as it expanded its territory in North America, and maneuvered by sometimes clandestine means to acquire it.<ref name="Writers1940">{{cite book|author=Writers' Program (Fla.)|title=Seeing Fernandina: A Guide to the City and Its Industries|url=https://archive.org/stream/seeingfernandina00writ#page/n22/mode/1up|access-date=3 May 2013|year=1940|publisher=Fernandina News Publishing Company|page=23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903180720/https://archive.org/stream/seeingfernandina00writ#page/n22/mode/1up|archive-date=3 September 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On October 5, 1811, a hurricane hit St. Augustine that caused extensive damage to the city. The damage was further exacerbated by the economic situation of Spanish Florida.<ref name="Johnson2005">{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Sherry |title=The St. Augustine Hurricane of 1811: Disaster and the Question of Political Unrest on the Florida Frontier |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=Summer 2005 |volume=84 |issue=1 |pages=28, 41 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol84/iss1/1/ }}</ref> The [[Adams–Onís Treaty]], negotiated in 1819 and ratified in 1821, ceded Florida and St. Augustine, still its capital at the time, to the United States.<ref name="CrutchfieldMoutlon2015">{{cite book|first1=James A.|last1=Crutchfield|first2=Candy|last2=Moutlon|author3=Terry Del Bene|title=The Settlement of America: An Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lGusBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|date=26 March 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-45461-8|page=51|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226215508/https://books.google.com/books?id=lGusBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA51|archive-date=26 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Territory of Florida===
{{main|Adams–Onís Treaty|Florida Territory}}
According to the Adams–Onís Treaty, the United States acquired East Florida and absolved Spain of $5 million of debt. Spain renounced all claims to West Florida and the Oregon Country. [[Andrew Jackson]] returned to Florida in 1821, upon ratification of the treaty, and established a new territorial government. Americans from older plantation societies of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas began to move to the area. West Florida was quickly consolidated with East and the new capital of Florida became Tallahassee, halfway between the old capitals of St. Augustine and Pensacola, in 1824.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://dos.fl.gov/florida-facts/florida-history/a-brief-history/territorial-period/|title=Territorial Period – Florida Department of State|website=dos.myflorida.com|access-date=2019-06-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305062541/https://dos.myflorida.com/florida-facts/florida-history/a-brief-history/territorial-period/|archive-date=2019-03-05|url-status=live}}</ref>

Once many Americans had begun to immigrate to the new territory, it became apparent that there would be continued skirmishes with local Creek and Miccosukee peoples and white settlers encroaching on their land. The United States government favored removal policies, but local indigenous groups in Florida refused to leave without fighting. The nineteenth century saw three [[Seminole Wars]]. In 1823, territorial governor William Duval and James Gadsden signed the [[Treaty of Moultrie Creek]], forcing Seminoles onto a four million acre reservation in central Florida. The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was the longest war of Indian removal and resulted when the United States government attempted to move the [[Seminole]] people from Central Florida to a Creek reservation west of the [[Mississippi River]]. As a result of the Seminole War, Seminole [[prisoner]]s, including the prominent leader [[Osceola]], were held captive in the [[Castillo de San Marcos]], renamed Fort Marion after General [[Francis Marion]], who fought in the American Revolution, in the 1830s.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Seminole Incarceration |url=https://www.nps.gov/casa/learn/historyculture/seminole-incarceration.htm |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=16 May 2022}}</ref><ref name="Wickman2006">{{cite book |last=Wickman |first=Patricia Riles |title=Osceola's Legacy |date=2006 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5332-2 |pages=101–102 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5N_-gr9us8C&pg=PA101}}</ref>

By 1840, the territory's population had reached 54,477 people. Half the population were enslaved Africans. [[Steamboat]]s were popular on the [[Apalachicola River|Apalachicola]] and [[St. Johns River]]s, and there were several plans for railroad construction. The territory south of present-day Gainesville was sparsely populated by whites.<ref name=":1" />

In 1845 the Florida Territory was admitted into the Union as the State of Florida.<ref name="Stathis2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|title=Landmark Legislation 1774–2012: Major U.S. Acts and Treaties|first=Stephen W.|last=Stathis|date=2 January 2014|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-9229-8|page=78|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226222759/https://books.google.com/books?id=CkR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|archive-date=26 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Civil War===
{{Main|Florida in the American Civil War}}
[[File:The Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Florida- (6892781474) (cropped).jpg|left|thumb|[[Slave market|Slave Market]], St. Augustine, Florida in 1886]]
On January 7, 1861, only three days before Florida would secede and join the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]], a group of 125 Florida militia marched on [[Castillo de San Marcos|Fort Marion.]] The fort was guarded by a single sergeant, who surrendered the fort after being provided with a receipt. [[Robert E. Lee|Gen. Robert E. Lee]], who was commander of coastal defenses at the time, ordered that the fort's cannons be removed and sent to more strategic locations, such as [[Fernandina Beach, Florida|Fernandina]] and the mouth of the [[St. Johns River]].<ref name="Omega1952">{{cite journal |last1=Omega |first1=G. East |title=St. Augustine during the Civil War |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1952 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=75–76 |url=https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol31/iss2/1/ |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref>

The town raised a Confederate militia unit, known as the Florida Independent Blues or the [[Saint Augustine Blues]].<ref name="Ethier2011">{{cite book |last1=Ethier |first1=Eric |title=The Big Book of Civil War Sites: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox, a Visitor's Guide to the History, Personalities, and Places of America's Battlefields |year=2011 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-0-7627-6632-1 |page=407 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5C0M-hnUYMAC&pg=PA407}}</ref> They were soon joined by the Milton Guard, another militia unit.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bittle |first=George |title=Florida Prepares for War, 1860-1861 |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=October 1972 |volume=51 |issue=2 |page=144 |url=http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/dl/SN00154113.pdf |access-date=July 16, 2022}}</ref>

In an effort to help blockade runners avoid capture, the Confederate government ordered all lighthouses to be extinguished. In St. Augustine, the customhouse officer, [[Paul Arnau]], organized the "Coastal Guard", a group who worked to disable the lighthouses along Florida's east coast. They started by removing and hiding the lenses from the [[St. Augustine Light]] before moving south. After successfully dismantling the lighthouses at [[Cape Canaveral Light|Cape Canaveral]], [[Jupiter Inlet Light|Jupiter Inlet]], and [[Cape Florida Light|Key Biscayne]], Arnau returned to St. Augustine. He would then serve as mayor from 1861 until early 1862, just before the Federals took over the city.<ref>{{cite book |last=Redd |first=Robert |title=St. Augustine and the Civil War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kut2CQAAQBAJ&pg=PT18 |year=2014 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=9781625846570 |page=18 |edition=e-book}}</ref>

The Confederate authorities remained in control of St. Augustine for fourteen months, although it was barely defended. The Union conducted a blockade of shipping. In 1862 Union troops gained control of St. Augustine and controlled it through the rest of the war. With the economy already suffering, many residents fled.<ref name="ClaytonSalmond2003">{{cite book|first=Barbara E.|last=Mattick|editor-first1=Bruce |editor-last1=Clayton |editor-first2=John A.|editor-last2=Salmond|title=Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrnyY4NDGAAC&pg=PA117|year=2003|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-3117-0|page=117|chapter=The Catholic Nuns of St. Augustine (1859–1869)|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227071528/https://books.google.com/books?id=BrnyY4NDGAAC&pg=PA117|archive-date=2017-02-27|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Taylor2001">{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Taylor|title=Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tkEbc53Xq5sC&pg=PA127|year=2001|publisher=Pineapple Press Inc|isbn=978-1-56164-235-9|page=127|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731131043/https://books.google.com/books?id=tkEbc53Xq5sC&pg=PA127|archive-date=2016-07-31|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Henry Flagler and the railroad===
[[File:San Marco Hotel.jpg|thumb|St. Augustine in 1891 from the former San Marco Hotel, Spanish St. on left, [[Huguenot Cemetery]] lower left corner, Cordova St. on right]]
[[Henry Flagler]], a co-founder with [[John D. Rockefeller]] of the [[Standard Oil Company]], spent the winter of 1883 in St. Augustine with his second wife Ida Alice (née Shourds) Flagler and found the city charming, but considered its hotels and transportation systems inadequate.<ref name="Martin2010">{{cite book|author=Sidney Walter Martin|title=Florida's Flagler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOk0_6_4ep0C&pg=PA130|date=1 February 2010|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3488-2|page=130|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226200256/https://books.google.com/books?id=pOk0_6_4ep0C&pg=PA130|archive-date=26 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> He had the idea to make St. Augustine a winter resort for wealthy Americans from the north, and to bring them south he bought several short line railroads and combined these in 1885 to form the [[Florida East Coast Railway]]. He built a railroad bridge over the St. Johns River in 1888, opening up the Atlantic coast of Florida to development.<ref name="Cox2016">{{cite book|first=Jim|last=Cox|title=Rails Across Dixie: A History of Passenger Trains in the American South|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gY4FgCKdb7UC&pg=PA85|date=24 February 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-6175-2|page=85|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226170816/https://books.google.com/books?id=gY4FgCKdb7UC&pg=PA85|archive-date=26 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ManleyBrown1997">{{cite book|first1=Walter W.|last1=Manley|first2=E. Canter|last2=Brown|first3=Eric W.|last3=Rise|author4=Florida Supreme Court Historical Society|title=The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821–1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DZsiFB1Oj8C&pg=PA263|year=1997|publisher=University Press of Florida|isbn=978-0-8130-1540-8|page=263|access-date=2016-10-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226193520/https://books.google.com/books?id=6DZsiFB1Oj8C&pg=PA263|archive-date=2017-02-26|url-status=live}}</ref>

Flagler finished construction in 1887 on two large ornate hotels in the city, the 450-room [[Hotel Ponce de Leon]] and the 250-room [[Lightner Museum#Hotel Alcazar|Hotel Alcazar]]. The [[Ponce de Leon Hotel|Hotel Ponce de Leon]] was powered by Edison Electric, making it one of the nation's first electrified buildings.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hotel Ponce de Leon becomes Flagler College {{!}} Flagler College |url=https://www.flagler.edu/about/our-history/hotel-ponce-de-leon-becomes-flagler-college |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.flagler.edu |language=en}}</ref> The next year, he purchased the [[Casa Monica Hotel]] (renaming it the Cordova Hotel) across the street from both the Alcazar and the Ponce de Leon. His chosen architectural firm, [[Carrère and Hastings]], radically altered the appearance of St. Augustine with these hotels, giving it a [[skyline]] and beginning an architectural trend in the state characterized by the use of the [[Spanish Renaissance architecture|Spanish Renaissance Revival]] and [[Moorish Revival architecture|Moorish Revival]] styles. With the opening of the Ponce de Leon in 1888, St. Augustine became the winter resort of American high society for a few years.<ref name="Martin2010117–118">{{cite book|author=Sidney Walter Martin|title=Florida's Flagler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOk0_6_4ep0C&pg=PA117|date=1 February 2010|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3488-2|pages=117–118|access-date=6 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227011128/https://books.google.com/books?id=pOk0_6_4ep0C&pg=PA117|archive-date=27 February 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

When Flagler's [[Florida East Coast Railroad]] was extended southward to [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]] and then [[Miami]] in the early 20th century, the wealthy stopped in St. Augustine en route to the southern resorts. As time went on, Miami and the South Florida area saw a huge building boom, and wealthy vacationers began to spend their winters in South Florida. St. Augustine nevertheless still attracted tourists, and eventually became a destination for families traveling in automobiles as new highways were built and Americans took to the road for annual winter and summer vacations. The tourist industry soon became the dominant sector of the local economy.<ref>{{cite book|title=Tourism USA: Guidelines for Tourism Development : Appraising Tourism Potential, Planning for Tourism, Assessing Product and Market, Marketing Tourism, Visitor Services, Sources of Assistance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcFMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22mainstream%22|year=1991|publisher=The University of Missouri|page=87|access-date=2016-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226175550/https://books.google.com/books?id=JcFMAQAAMAAJ&q=%22mainstream%22|archive-date=2017-02-26|url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=June 2025}}

===Civil Rights Movement===
{{Main|St. Augustine movement}}
In 1963, nearly a decade after the Supreme Court ruling in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' that segregation of schools was unconstitutional, [[African American]]s were still trying to get St. Augustine to integrate the public schools in the city. They were also trying to integrate public accommodations, such as lunch counters,<ref name="BullockRozell2012">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q16Kv6J9OUC&pg=PA160|title=The Oxford Handbook of Southern Politics|first1=Charles S. III|last1=Bullock|first2=Mark J.|last2=Rozell|date=15 March 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-538194-8|page=160|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731122203/https://books.google.com/books?id=9Q16Kv6J9OUC&pg=PA160|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and were met with arrests<ref name="TheCrisis1963">{{cite journal|title=The Crisis|author=<!--Not stated-->|journal=The New Crisis|publisher=The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc.|year=1963|page=412|issn=0011-1422|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1sEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA412 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731191705/https://books.google.com/books?id=s1sEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA412|archive-date=2016-07-31|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Ku Klux Klan]] violence.<ref name="Ramdin2004">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gXC0pCB13BYC&pg=PA88|title=Martin Luther King, Jr|first=Ron|last=Ramdin|publisher=Haus Publishing|year=2004|isbn=978-1-904341-82-6|page=88|access-date=2017-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731181238/https://books.google.com/books?id=gXC0pCB13BYC&pg=PA88|archive-date=2016-07-31|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Jackson2013">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YwXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|title=From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice|first=Thomas F.|last=Jackson|date=17 July 2013|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-0000-3|page=190|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731141319/https://books.google.com/books?id=6YwXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Local students held protests throughout the city, including sit-ins at the local [[F. W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth's]], picket lines, and marches through the downtown. These protests were often met with police violence. Homes of African Americans were firebombed,<ref name="FBI1964">{{cite web|url=http://cdm16000.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16000coll4/id/732|title=FBI Report of 1964-02-08|website=OCLC|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706114831/http://cdm16000.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16000coll4/id/732|archive-date=July 6, 2008|quote=(redacted) St. Augustine, Florida, advised that what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail was thrown at the back of his house at the above address causing a serious fire.}}</ref> black leaders were assaulted and threatened with death, and others were fired from their jobs.

In the spring of 1964, St. Augustine civil rights leader [[Robert Hayling]]<ref name="Kirk2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVvJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|title=Martin Luther King Jr.|first=John|last=Kirk|date=6 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-87650-2|pages=103–104|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731125815/https://books.google.com/books?id=iVvJAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA103|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> asked the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]] (SCLC) and its leader [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] for assistance.<ref name="Webb2011">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-dDQ6ZWRTzYC&pg=PA169|title=Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era|first=Clive|last=Webb|date=15 August 2011|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-4229-0|page=169|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731182458/https://books.google.com/books?id=-dDQ6ZWRTzYC&pg=PA169|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> From May until July 1964, King and Hayling, along with [[Hosea Williams]], [[C. T. Vivian]], [[Dorothy Cotton]], [[Andrew Young]] and others, organized marches, sit-ins, pray-ins, wade-ins and other forms of protest in St. Augustine. Hundreds of black and white civil rights supporters were arrested,<ref name="Singleton2014">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-QjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|title=Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and Thereafter: Profiles of Lessons Learned|first=Dorothy M.|last=Singleton|date=18 March 2014|publisher=UPA|isbn=978-0-7618-6319-9|page=28|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731182548/https://books.google.com/books?id=B-QjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA28|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and the jails were filled to capacity.<ref name="Harper's1965">{{cite web|url=http://harpers.org/archive/1965/01/anarchy-in-st-augustine/5/|title=Anarchy in St. Augustine|first1=Larry|last1=Goodwyn|date=January 1965|website=Harpers.org|publisher=Harper's Magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421172532/http://harpers.org/archive/1965/01/anarchy-in-st-augustine/|archive-date=April 21, 2015|quote=Sheriff Davis was beginning to use harsh treatment against demonstrators who were in jail. He would herd both men and women into a chain link pen in the yard in a 99-degree sun; he kept them there all day. Water was insufficient and there was no latrine. At night the prisoners were crowded in small cells without room to lie down.}}</ref> At the request of Hayling and King, civil rights supporters from elsewhere, including students, clergy, activists and well-known public figures, came to St. Augustine and were arrested together.<ref name="VorspanSaperstein1998">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/jewishdimensions0000vors|url-access=registration|title=Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough Moral Choices of Our Time|first1=Albert|last1=Vorspan|first2=David|last2=Saperstein|publisher=UAHC Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-8074-0650-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/jewishdimensions0000vors/page/204 204]–205|access-date=2017-08-12}}</ref><ref name="Haynes2012">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzuT4WkuiBUC&pg=PA44|title=The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for Southern Church Desegregation|first=Stephen|last=Haynes|date=8 November 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-539505-1|page=44|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731181210/https://books.google.com/books?id=fzuT4WkuiBUC&pg=PA44|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Branch2007">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CUI6tY9RJUYC&pg=PA606|title=Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963–65|first=Taylor|last=Branch|date=16 April 2007|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-5870-5|page=606|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731131444/https://books.google.com/books?id=CUI6tY9RJUYC&pg=PA606|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

St. Augustine was the only place in Florida where King was arrested; his arrest there occurred on June 11, 1964, on the steps of the [[Monson House|Monson Motor Lodge's]] restaurant. The demonstrations [[1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests|came to a climax when a group of black and white protesters jumped into the hotel's segregated swimming pool]]. In response to the protest, James Brock, the manager of the hotel and the president of the Florida Hotel & Motel Association, poured [[Hydrochloric acid|muriatic acid]] into the pool to scare the protesters. Photographs of this, and of a policeman jumping into the pool to arrest the protesters, were broadcast around the world. One appeared on the front page of the Washington paper the day the senate went to vote on the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. It became the most famous photograph ever taken in St. Augustine.

The Ku Klux Klan and its supporters responded to these protests with violent attacks that were widely reported in national and international media.<ref name="Curtis1998">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCclwnUIo08C&pg=PT99|title=Black Heritage Sites: The South|first=Nancy C.|last=Curtis|date=1 August 1998|publisher=The New Press|isbn=978-1-56584-433-9|page=99|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731174401/https://books.google.com/books?id=FCclwnUIo08C&pg=PT99|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Popular revulsion against the Klan and police violence in St. Augustine generated national sympathy for the black protesters and became a key factor in Congressional passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]],<ref name="PitreGlasrud2013">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQwxmc7KH2sC&pg=PT43|title=Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement|first1=Merline|author1-link= Merline Pitre|last1=Pitre|first2=Bruce A.|last2=Glasrud|date=20 March 2013|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-60344-999-1|page=43|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731141025/https://books.google.com/books?id=vQwxmc7KH2sC&pg=PT43|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> leading eventually to passage of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]],<ref name="Goldfield2006">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4il1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT201|title=Encyclopedia of American Urban History|first=David|last=Goldfield|date=7 December 2006|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4522-6553-7|page=201|access-date=12 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731190917/https://books.google.com/books?id=4il1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT201|archive-date=31 July 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> both of which provided federal enforcement of [[Reconstruction Amendments|constitutional rights]].

St. Augustine's historically Black college, now [[Florida Memorial University]], felt itself unwelcome in St. Augustine, and departed in 1968 for a new campus near [[Opa-locka, Florida|Opa-locka]] in [[Miami-Dade County|Dade County]]. It is currently located in the [[Opa-locka North, Florida|Opa-locka North]] neighborhood of [[Miami Gardens, Florida|Miami Gardens]], next to [[St. Thomas University (Florida)|St. Thomas University]].<ref name="Marcof2021">{{cite news |last1=Marcof |first1=Bianca |title=Florida Memorial University fights for its future |url=https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/florida-memorial-university-fights-for-its-future/article_2f500f4e-dcea-11eb-b7b8-e3197c7ff178.html |access-date=18 February 2023 |work=The Miami Times |date=July 6, 2021}}</ref>

===Modern St. Augustine===
In 1965, St. Augustine celebrated the 400th anniversary of its founding,<ref>{{cite book|title=History News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IlrjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22year-long%20birthday%20party%22|volume=20–21|year=1965|publisher=American Association for State and Local History|page=208|access-date=2016-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226200414/https://books.google.com/books?id=IlrjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22year-long%20birthday%20party%22|archive-date=2017-02-26|url-status=live}}</ref> and jointly with the State of Florida, inaugurated a program to restore part of the city. The [[Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board]] was formed to reconstruct more than thirty-six buildings to their historical appearance, which was completed within a few years. When the State of Florida abolished the Board in 1997, the City of St. Augustine assumed control of the reconstructed buildings, as well as other historic properties including the [[Government House (St. Augustine)|Government House]]. In 2010, the city transferred control of the historic buildings to [[University of Florida Historic St. Augustine, Inc.|UF Historic St. Augustine, Inc.]], a direct support organization of the [[University of Florida]].

[[Cross and Sword]] was a 1965 [[play (theatre)|play]] by American playwright [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]] created to honor the 400th anniversary of the settlement of St. Augustine. It was [[Florida]]'s official state play, having received the designation by the [[Florida Senate]] in 1973.<ref name="flher-play">[http://www.flheritage.com/facts/symbols/symbol.cfm?page=2&id=21 Florida State Symbols - The State Play: Cross and Sword] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607081614/http://www.flheritage.com/facts/symbols/symbol.cfm?page=2&id=21 |date=June 7, 2008 }}</ref> It was performed for ten weeks every summer in St. Augustine for more than 30 years, closing in 1996.<ref name=njo082108>{{cite web |url=http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Entertainment/Music/entMUS01082108.htm |title=Amped at the amphitheatre |access-date=2008-09-07 |author=de Yampert, Rick |date=2008-08-21 |publisher=Daytona Beach News-Journal Online}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
<ref name=ocala082208>{{cite web |url=http://www.ocala.com/article/20080822/LIVING05/570971/1027&title=St__Augustine_gets_amped |title=St. Augustine gets amped |access-date=2008-09-07 |author=Reinink, Amy |date=2008-08-22 |publisher=Ocala Star Banner}}</ref><ref name="official-specs">[http://www.staugamphitheatre.com/specs.php St. Augustine Amphitheatre - Venue - Specs] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219160225/http://www.staugamphitheatre.com/specs.php |date=2008-12-19 }}</ref><ref name="guide-rajtar">{{cite book |title=A Guide to Historic St. Augustine, Florida |last=Rajtar |first=Steve |author2=Kelly Goodman |year=2008 |publisher=The History Press |isbn=978-1-59629-336-6 |pages=52–53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyrHSTZUw0cC }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

In 2015, St. Augustine celebrated the 450th anniversary of its founding with a four-day long festival and a visit from [[Felipe VI of Spain]] and [[Queen Letizia of Spain]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gardner|first1=Sheldon|title=King and queen of Spain to visit St. Augustine in September|newspaper=The St. Augustine Record|url=http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2015-07-16/spanish-ambassador-visits-clear-way-visit-king-and-queen|access-date=8 October 2016|date=July 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009202335/http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2015-07-16/spanish-ambassador-visits-clear-way-visit-king-and-queen|archive-date=2016-10-09}}</ref>

On October 7, 2016 [[Hurricane Matthew]] caused widespread flooding in downtown St. Augustine.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Martin|first1=Jake|title=Hurricane Matthew: Surveying damage in St. Augustine the morning after|newspaper=The St. Augustine Record|url=http://staugustine.com/news-local-news/2016-10-08/hurricane-matthew-surveying-damage-st-augustine-morning-after|access-date=8 October 2016|date=October 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161009161322/http://staugustine.com/news-local-news/2016-10-08/hurricane-matthew-surveying-damage-st-augustine-morning-after|archive-date=9 October 2016|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2017, skeletal remains believed to be from the earliest settlements were found inside the Fiesta Mall. After hurricane Matthew in 2016, the owner of the wine shop was renovating when an archeologist found the remains in the dirt under it.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Daley |first=Jason |title=Skeletons Found Under a Florida Wine Shop May Be Some of America’s First Colonists |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-early-colonists-unearthed-st-augustine-180962385/ |access-date=2025-10-26 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}</ref> 

==Geography and climate==
[[File:St. Augustine Anastasia Island north pano01.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|View of St. Augustine from the top of the lighthouse on Anastasia Island]]
St. Augustine is located at {{Coord|29|53|41|N|81|18|52|W|type:city}} (29.8946910, −81.3145170).
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|27.8|km2|order=flip}}, {{convert|21.7|km2|order=flip}} of which is land and {{convert|6.1|km2|order=flip}} (21.99%) is water. Access to the Atlantic Ocean is via the St. Augustine Inlet of the [[Matanzas River]].

St. Augustine has a [[humid subtropical climate]] (''Cfa'') typical of the Gulf and South Atlantic states. The low latitude and coastal location give the city a mostly warm and sunny climate. Unlike much of the [[contiguous United States]], St. Augustine's driest time of year is winter. The hot and wet season extends from May through October, while the cool and dry season extends November through April.

In summer, average high temperatures are in the lower 90's F (32 C) and normal low temperatures are in the 70's F (20 - 22 C). The Bermuda High pumps in hot and unstable tropical air from the Bahamas and Gulf of Mexico, which help create the daily thundershowers that are typical in summer months. Intense but very brief downpours are common in summer in the city. Fall and spring are warm and sunny with highs from 74&nbsp;°F to 87&nbsp;°F and lows in the 50s to 70s.

In winter, St. Augustine has generally mild and sunny weather typical of the Florida peninsula. The coolest months are from December through February, with highs from 67&nbsp;°F to 70&nbsp;°F and lows from 47&nbsp;°F to 51&nbsp;°F. From November through April, St. Augustine often has long periods of rainless weather. April can see near drought conditions with brush fires and water restrictions in place. St. Augustine averages 4.6 frosts per year. The record low of {{convert|10|F|C}} happened on January 21, 1985. [[Tropical cyclones|Hurricanes]] occasionally impact the region; however, like most areas prone to such storms, St. Augustine rarely suffers a direct hit by a major hurricane. The last direct hit by a major hurricane to the city was [[Hurricane Dora (1964)|Hurricane Dora]] in 1964. Extensive flooding occurred in the downtown area of St. Augustine when [[Hurricane Matthew]] passed east of the city in October 2016.<ref>{{ cite news |title=Hurricane Matthew floods St. Augustine beach areas |author=Braun, Michael |url=http://www.news-press.com/story/news/2016/10/07/hurricane-matthew-floods-st-augustine-beach-area/91748012/ |newspaper=(Fort Myers) News-Press |date=8 October 2016 |access-date=8 October 2016}}</ref>

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|location = St. Augustine, Florida ([[St. Augustine Light]]), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1973–2016
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|Jan avg record high F = 80.0
|Feb avg record high F = 81.8
|Mar avg record high F = 84.9
|Apr avg record high F = 88.6
|May avg record high F = 93.3
|Jun avg record high F = 95.9
|Jul avg record high F = 97.6
|Aug avg record high F = 96.0
|Sep avg record high F = 92.8
|Oct avg record high F = 89.0
|Nov avg record high F = 84.2
|Dec avg record high F = 81.1
|year avg record high F = 98.5

| Jan high F = 67.5
| Feb high F = 69.7
| Mar high F = 74.4
| Apr high F = 79.8
| May high F = 85.1
| Jun high F = 88.6
| Jul high F = 91.0
| Aug high F = 89.9
| Sep high F = 87.4
| Oct high F = 81.8
| Nov high F = 74.9
| Dec high F = 68.9
|year high F = 79.9
|Jan mean F = 57.6
|Feb mean F = 60.0
|Mar mean F = 64.5
|Apr mean F = 70.2
|May mean F = 76.3
|Jun mean F = 80.4
|Jul mean F = 82.4
|Aug mean F = 82.1
|Sep mean F = 80.3
|Oct mean F = 74.2
|Nov mean F = 66.2
|Dec mean F = 60.1
|year mean F = 71.2
| Jan low F = 47.8
| Feb low F = 50.2
| Mar low F = 54.6
| Apr low F = 60.6
| May low F = 67.4
| Jun low F = 72.3
| Jul low F = 73.8
| Aug low F = 74.2
| Sep low F = 73.1
| Oct low F = 66.5
| Nov low F = 57.5
| Dec low F = 51.3
|year low F = 62.4

|Jan avg record low F = 28.1
|Feb avg record low F = 32.1
|Mar avg record low F = 36.9
|Apr avg record low F = 44.6
|May avg record low F = 55.6
|Jun avg record low F = 64.8
|Jul avg record low F = 68.1
|Aug avg record low F = 68.6
|Sep avg record low F = 64.0
|Oct avg record low F = 49.0
|Nov avg record low F = 39.1
|Dec avg record low F = 31.4
|year avg record low F = 25.6

|Jan record high F = 86
|Feb record high F = 87
|Mar record high F = 93
|Apr record high F = 95
|May record high F = 98
|Jun record high F = 101
|Jul record high F = 103
|Aug record high F = 101
|Sep record high F = 99
|Oct record high F = 94
|Nov record high F = 89 
|Dec record high F = 86
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==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1830= 1708
|1840= 2450
|1850= 1934
|1860= 1914
|1870= 1717
|1880= 2293
|1890= 4742
|1900= 4272
|1910= 5494
|1920= 6192
|1930= 12111
|1940= 12090
|1950= 13555
|1960= 14734
|1970= 12352
|1980= 11985
|1990= 11692
|2000= 11592
|2010= 12975
|2020= 14329
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}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+'''St. Augustine racial composition'''<br> (Hispanics excluded from racial categories)<br> (''NH = Non-Hispanic'')<br>
!Race
!Pop 2010<ref>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - St. Augustine city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=St+Augustine+city;+Florida+&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!Pop 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=P2 HISPANIC OR LATINO, AND NOT HISPANIC OR LATINO BY RACE - 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) - St. Augustine city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=St+Augustine+city;+Florida+&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>
!% 2010
!% 2020
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino whites|White]] (NH)
|10,443
|11,275
|80.49%
|78.69%
|-
|[[Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans|Black or African American]] (NH)
|1,460
|1,136
|11.25%
|7.93%
|-
|[[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] or [[Alaska Native]] (NH)
|46
|40
|0.35%
|0.28%
|-
|[[Asian Americans|Asian]] (NH)
|155
|246
|1.19%
|1.72%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander Americans|Pacific Islander]] or [[Native Hawaiian]] (NH)
|10
|7
|0.08%
|0.05%
|-
|[[Other races (U.S. Census)|Some other race]] (NH)
|19
|53
|0.15%
|0.37%
|-
|[[Multiracial Americans|Two or more races/Multiracial]] (NH)
|186
|523
|1.43%
|3.65%
|-
|[[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic or Latino]] (any race)
|656
|1,049
|5.06%
|7.32%
|-
|'''Total'''
|'''12,975'''
|'''14,329'''
|
|
|-
|}

As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 14,329 people, 6,243 households, and 3,072 families residing in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2020: St. Augustine city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=St+Augustine+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2020.S1101|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

In 2020, 2.2% of the population were under 5 years old, 8.7% under 18 years old, and 25.5% were 65 years and over. 57.9% of the population were female.<ref name="QFStAu">{{cite web |title=QuickFacts: St. Augustine city, Florida |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/staugustinecityflorida |access-date=21 July 2025 |website=www.census.gov |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref>

In 2020, the median value of owner-occupied housing units was $294,600. The median gross rent was $1,118. 91.2% of households had a computer and 83.0% of households had a broadband internet subscription.<ref name =QFStAu/>

In 2020, 93.8% of the population 25 years and older had a high school degree or higher and 37.4% of that same population had a bachelor's degree or higher.<ref name =QFStAu/>

In 2020, the median household income was $80,473. The per capita income was $33,060. 17.0% lived below the [[Poverty threshold]].<ref name =QFStAu/>

In 2020, there was 8.5% of people without health care coverage.<ref name="QFStAu" />

There were 1,230 veterans living in the city between 2016 and 2020, and 6.6% of the population were foreign born persons.<ref name =QFStAu/>

As of the [[2010 United States census]], there were 12,975 people, 5,494 households, and 2,546 families residing in the city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=S1101 HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES - 2010: St. Augustine city, Florida|url=https://data.census.gov/table?q=St+Augustine+city;+Florida+&tid=ACSST5Y2010.S1101|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]}}</ref>

Between 2018 and 2023, the share of remote workers in St. Johns County rose from about 8.6% to nearly 24%, making St. Augustine a growing remote-work hub.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schneider |first=Mike |date=2025-03-23 |title=A 16th-century Spanish explorer claimed this Florida beach town. Now it’s a remote work hotspot |url=https://apnews.com/article/florida-remote-work-st-augustine-census-1d2c1fe88776892b520f7ac1c843663d |access-date=2025-10-27 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>

==Government and politics==
St. Augustine is the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/st-johns-county-questions-jacksonville-branding-proposal|title=St. Johns County questions Jacksonville branding proposal &#124; Jax Daily Record|date=November 6, 2018|website=Financial News & Daily Record - Jacksonville, Florida|access-date=November 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105235741/https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/st-johns-county-questions-jacksonville-branding-proposal|archive-date=November 5, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GR6">{{cite web| url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx| access-date=2011-06-07| title=Find a County| website=naco.org| publisher=National Association of Counties| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx| archive-date=2011-05-31}}</ref>

The city of St. Augustine operates under a [[city commission government]], specifically the [[Council-manager government|commissioner-manager]] form, with an elected [[mayor]], [[Vice Mayor|vice mayor]], and [[City council|city commission]]. Additionally, the government includes a [[city manager]], [[city attorney]], [[City Clerk|city clerk]], and various city boards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.citystaug.com/582/City-Commission|title=City Commission {{!}} St. Augustine, FL|website=www.citystaug.com|access-date=2021-03-19}}</ref>

==Transportation==
[[File:St. Augustine Major Roadways.jpg|thumb|Major roadways, St. Augustine and vicinity]]

===Highways===
* {{jct|I|95|state=FL}} (Interstate 95) runs north–south.
* {{jct|US|1|state=FL}} runs north–south.
* {{jct|FL|A1A|state=FL}} runs north–south.
* {{jct|FL|16|state=FL}} runs east–west.
* {{jct|FL|207|state=FL}} runs northeast–southwest.
* {{jct|FL|312|state=FL}} runs east–west.

===Buses===
[[File:Sunshine Bus Red Line @ NW Corner Charlotte and Cathedral.jpg|thumb|right|A Sunshine Bus Company bus stops at [[U.S. Route 1 Business (St. Augustine, Florida)|Cathedral Place]].]]
Bus service is operated by the Sunshine Bus Company, based in [[St. Augustine Beach]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.staugbch.com/community/page/public-transportation|title=Public Transportation &#124; St. Augustine Beach Florida|website=www.staugbch.com}}</ref> Buses operate mainly between shopping centers across town, but a few go to Hastings and Jacksonville, where one can connect to [[Jacksonville Transportation Authority|JTA]] for additional service across Jacksonville.

There are also tour bus companies: [[Old Town Trolley Tours of St. Augustine]], Red Train Tours,<ref name="RandallRandall2024">{{cite book |last1=Randall |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Randall |first2=William |title=Secret St. Augustine: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure |date=2024 |publisher=Reedy Press LLC |isbn=978-1-68106-568-7 |page=314 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1MgeEQAAQBAJ&pg=PT314}}</ref> and the Saint Augustine Rider (STAR) Circulator.<ref name="Paxton2025">{{cite news |last1=Paxton |first1=Anne |title=Explore St. Augustine with Ease as Free STAR Circulator Shuttle Service Connects Downtown Hotspots |url=https://hoodline.com/2025/07/explore-st-augustine-with-ease-free-star-circulator-shuttle-service-connects-downtown-hotspots/ |work=Hoodline |date=8 July 2025}}</ref>

===Airport===
{{Main|Northeast Florida Regional Airport}}
St. Augustine has one public airport {{convert|4|mi|km}} north of the downtown. It has three runways and two [[seaplane]] lanes.<ref name="SGJ info">{{cite web|url=https://skyvector.com/airport/SGJ/St-Augustine-Airport|title=SGJ – Northeast Florida Regional Airport – SkyVector|work=skyvector.com|access-date=2014-06-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514071002/http://skyvector.com/airport/SGJ/St-Augustine-Airport|archive-date=2015-05-14}}</ref>

===Rail===
The [[Florida East Coast Railway]] runs through St. Augustine. Passenger service to the city ended in 1968. [[First Coast Commuter Rail]] is a project to establish [[commuter rail]] services between Jacksonville and St. Augustine.

==Points of interest==
{{See also|List of St. Augustine parks}}

===First and second Spanish eras===
* [[Avero House]]
* [[Castillo de San Marcos National Monument]]
* [[Fort Matanzas National Monument]]
* [[Fort Mose Historic State Park]]
* [[Nombre de Dios (mission)|Nombre de Dios]]
* [[Gonzalez-Alvarez House]]
* [[Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park]]
* [[The Spanish Military Hospital Museum]]
* [[St. Francis Barracks]]
* [[Colonial Quarter]]
* [[Ximenez-Fatio House]]
* [[González-Jones House]]
* [[Llambias House]]
* [[Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse]]
* [[Tolomato Cemetery]] and [[Huguenot Cemetery]]

===British era===
* [[The King's Bakery]]

===Pre-Flagler era===
* [[St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum]]
* [[Markland (St. Augustine, Florida)|Markland Mansion]]

===Flagler era===
* [[Ponce de Leon Hotel]]
* [[Casa Monica Hotel]]
* [[Lightner Museum|Hotel Alcazar]]
* [[Villa Zorayda|Zorayda Castle]]
* [[Bridge of Lions]]
* [[Old St. Johns County Jail]]
* [[Ripley's Believe It or Not!#Florida|Ripley's Believe it or Not! Museum]] located in 1887 mansion of William Warden.
* [[St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park]]

===Historic churches===
* [[Grace United Methodist Church (St. Augustine, Florida)|Grace United Methodist Church]]
* [[Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine]]
* [[Memorial Presbyterian Church]]
* [[Trinity Parish (St. Augustine, Florida)|Trinity Church of St. Augustine]]

===Lincolnville National Historic District – Civil Rights era===
{{main|Lincolnville Historic District}}
* [[St. Benedict the Moor School]]

===Other points of interest===
* [[Anastasia State Park]]
* [[Florida School for the Deaf and Blind]]
* [[Great Cross]]
* [[St. Augustine Amphitheatre]]
* [[St. Augustine Aquarium]]
* [[St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum]]
* [[St. George Street (St. Augustine)|St. George Street]]
* [[Victory III]], St. Augustine Scenic Cruise boat, since 1973

==Culture==
{{expand section|date=May 2023}}

===Music===
*[[The Wobbly Toms]] (2003), band

===Films===
Notable films shot primarily in St. Augustine include:
*''[[Revenge of the Creature]]'' (1955)<ref>{{cite news |title="Revenge of the Creature" free screening at amphitheatre Night Market |url=https://www.staugustine.com/story/entertainment/local/2018/04/20/revenge-of-creature-free-screening-at-amphitheatre-night-market/12651236007/ |access-date=October 15, 2024 |work=St. Augustine Record}}</ref>
*''[[Illegally Yours]]'' (1988)<ref>{{cite news |title=Rob Lowe movie 'Illegally Yours' filmed in St. Augustine 35 years ago |url=https://www.staugustine.com/story/entertainment/local/2022/04/11/rob-lowe-movie-illegally-yours-filmed-st-augustine-florida-35-years-ago/9482140002/ |access-date=October 15, 2024 |work=St. Augustine Record}}</ref>
*''[[D.O.A. (2022 film)|D.O.A.]]'' (2022)<ref name="tsar"/>

==Education==
[[File:St Aug Fla School Deaf Blind pano01.jpg|thumb|[[Ray Charles]] Center and the Theodore Johnson Center, at the [[Florida School for the Deaf and Blind]]]]

[[Primary school|Primary]] and [[secondary school|secondary]] education in St. Augustine is overseen by the [[St. Johns County School District]].

There are four zoned elementary schools with sections of the city limits in their attendance boundaries: John A. 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The [[Florida School for the Deaf and Blind]], a state-operated [[boarding school]] for [[deaf]] and [[Blindness|blind]] students, was founded in the city in 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/|website=fsdb.k12.fl.us|title=Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind|access-date=2007-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403183039/http://www.fsdb.k12.fl.us/|archive-date=2007-04-03}}</ref> The Catholic [[Diocese of St. Augustine]] operates the [[St. Joseph Academy (St. Augustine, Florida)|St. Joseph Academy]], Florida's oldest [[Catholic school|Catholic high school]], to the west of the city.<ref>{{cite news|title= School is Tradition|url= http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021503/nep_11747998.shtml|newspaper= [[The Florida Times-Union]]/Shorelines|date= February 13, 2003|access-date= May 18, 2011|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121008203525/http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021503/nep_11747998.shtml|archive-date= 2012-10-08}}</ref>

There are several institutions of higher education in and around St. Augustine. [[Flagler College]] is a four-year [[liberal arts college]] founded in 1968. It is located in the former [[Ponce de Leon Hotel]] in downtown St. Augustine.<ref>{{cite book |title= Insiders' Guide to Jacksonville, 3rd Edition|last= Reiss|first= Sarah W. |year= 2009 |publisher= Globe Pequot |isbn= 978-0-7627-5032-0|page= 184|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rlHWoqDYZHkC|access-date= May 10, 2011}}</ref> [[St. Johns River State College]], a [[state university|state college]] in the [[Florida College System]], has its St. Augustine campus just west of the city. Also in the area are the [[University of North Florida]], [[Jacksonville University]], and [[Florida State College at Jacksonville]] in Jacksonville.<ref>{{cite book |title= Insiders' Guide to Jacksonville, 3rd Edition|last= Reiss|first= Sarah W. |year= 2009 |publisher= Globe Pequot |isbn= 978-0-7627-5032-0|pages= 184–187|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rlHWoqDYZHkC|access-date= May 18, 2011}}</ref>

The institution now known as [[Florida Memorial University]] was located in St. Augustine from 1918 to 1968, when it relocated to its present campus in [[Miami Gardens, Florida|Miami Gardens]]. Originally known as Florida Baptist Academy, then Florida Normal, and then Florida Memorial College, it was a [[historically black college|historically black]] institution and had a wide impact on St. Augustine while it was located there. During [[World War II]] it was chosen as the site for training the first blacks in the U. S. [[Signal Corps (United States Army)|Signal Corps]]. Among its faculty members was [[Zora Neale Hurston]]; a historic marker was placed in 2003 at the house at 791 West King Street where she lived while teaching at Florida Memorial<ref name="Jolly2013">{{cite book|first=Margaretta|last=Jolly|title=Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pedJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA450|date=4 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-78744-7|page=450|access-date=27 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603221529/https://books.google.com/books?id=pedJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA450|archive-date=3 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> (and where she completed her autobiography ''[[Dust Tracks on a Road]]''.)<ref name="Croft2002">{{cite book|author=Robert Wayne Croft|title=A Zora Neale Hurston Companion|url=https://archive.org/details/zoranealehurston0000crof|url-access=registration|date=1 January 2002|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30707-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/zoranealehurston0000crof/page/37 37]–38|access-date=27 October 2015}}</ref><ref name="Bloom2009">{{cite book|first=Harold|last=Bloom|title=Zora Neale Hurston|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x7_9tPX0gVoC&pg=PA38|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-4381-1553-5|pages=38–39|access-date=27 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424185149/https://books.google.com/books?id=x7_9tPX0gVoC&pg=PA38|archive-date=24 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

<gallery>
File:St. Augustine High School.jpg|[[St. Augustine High School (St. Augustine, Florida)|St. Augustine High School]] is not in the city limits, but is the zoned high school of St. Augustine
File:Ketterlinus Elmentary School.jpg|Ketterlinus Elementary School is one of two public elementary schools in the St. Augustine city limits.
File:Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.jpg|[[Florida School for the Deaf and Blind]] is a statewide K-12 school for the deaf and blind in St. Augustine
</gallery>

==Notable people==
[[File:David Levy Yulee - Brady-Handy.jpg|thumb|upright|United States Senator [[David Levy Yulee]]]]
[[File:Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg|thumb|upright|Author [[Zora Neale Hurston]]]]
* [[Andrew Anderson (St. Augustine, Florida)|Andrew Anderson]], physician, St. Augustine mayor
* [[Steve Berry (novelist)]], bestselling author, resides in St. Augustine
* [[Jorge Biassou]], Haitian revolutionary and black Spanish general
* [[Richard Boone]], actor
* [[Albert Boyd]], member of [[National Aviation Hall of Fame]]
* [[James Branch Cabell]], novelist
* [[Doug Carn]], jazz musician
* [[Cris Carpenter]], major league baseball pitcher
* [[Ray Charles]], pianist, singer, composer
* [[George J. F. Clarke]], Surveyor General of Spanish East Florida
* [[Nicholas de Concepcion]], escaped slave who became a Spanish privateer and pirate captain
* [[Earl Cunningham]], artist
* [[Alexander Darnes]], born a slave, became a well-known physician
* [[Edmund Jackson Davis]], governor of Texas
* [[Kathleen Deagan]], archaeologist
* [[Frederick Delius]], composer
* [[Frederick Tracy Dent|Frederick Dent]], general and brother-in-law of [[Ulysses Grant]]
* [[Audrey Nell Edwards]], civil rights hero
* [[Henry Flagler]], industrialist
* [[Willie Galimore]], football star
* [[Michael Gannon (historian)|Michael Gannon]], historian
* [[William H. Gray (congressman)|William H. Gray]], U.S. congressman and president of the United Negro College Fund
* [[Martin Davis Hardin]], Union General in the Civil War
* [[Robert Hayling]], civil rights leader
* [[Martin Johnson Heade]], artist
* [[Zora Neale Hurston]], novelist and folklorist
* [[Willie Irvin]], Philadelphia Eagles football player
* [[Stetson Kennedy]], author and human rights activist
* [[Scott Lagasse]], race car driver
* [[Scott Lagasse Jr.]], race car driver
* [[Jacob Lawrence]], artist
* [[William W. Loring]], Confederate general
* [[Albert Manucy]], historian, author, [[Fulbright Scholar]]
* [[Howell W. Melton]], United States district judge
* [[Pedro Menéndez de Avilés]], founder of St. Augustine in 1565
* [[Prince Achille Murat]], nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte
* [[Andrew Nagorski]], journalist and author
* [[David Nolan (American author)|David Nolan]], author and historian
* [[Osceola]], Seminole War leader (held prisoner at [[Fort Marion]], now [[Castillo de San Marcos]])
* [[Verle A. Pope]], state legislator
* [[Steph Post]], author
* [[Richard Henry Pratt]], soldier and educator
* [[Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings]], novelist
* [[Marcus Roberts]], musician
* [[Gamble Rogers]], folk singer
* [[John M. Schofield]], Union general
* [[Steven L. Sears]], Television Writer, Screenwriter, Producer, Actor, Author
* [[Edmund Kirby Smith]], Confederate general
* [[Bill Snowden]], race car driver
* [[Steve Spurrier]], college/pro (American) football coach
* [[Kurt St. Thomas]], author and filmmaker<ref name="tsar">{{cite news |last1=Gardner |first1=Sheldon |title=St. Augustine to be featured in independent film 'D.O.A' |access-date=October 12, 2024 |work=[[The St. Augustine Record]] |date=30 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624215537/https://www.staugustine.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/05/30/filmmaker-remakes-old-noir-movie-d-o-a-st-augustine/7457351002/ |archive-date=24 June 2021 |url=https://www.staugustine.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/05/30/filmmaker-remakes-old-noir-movie-d-o-a-st-augustine/7457351002/ }}</ref>
* [[Felix Varela]], Cuban national hero
* [[Augustin Verot]], first Bishop of St. Augustine
* [[Patty Wagstaff]], member of [[National Aviation Hall of Fame]]
* [[DeWitt Webb]], physician, St. Augustine mayor, state representative
* [[Herbert E. Wolfe]], "One Man Power Structure."
* [[David Levy Yulee]], first [[Jewish]] U.S. Senator, [[Levy County]] and [[Yulee, Florida]] namesake
* [[Agustin V. Zamorano]], pioneer printer and provisional governor of California
* [[Nathan Sturgis]], American former soccer player who last played for [[Seattle Sounders FC]] in [[Major League Soccer]].

==Sister cities==
{{See also|List of sister cities in Florida}}
St. Augustine's [[sister cities]] are:<ref>{{cite web |title=Sister Cities|url=https://www.citystaug.com/695/Sister-Cities|website=citystaug.com|publisher=City of St. Augustine|access-date=2021-01-26}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Avilés]], Spain
*{{flagicon|COL}} [[Cartagena, Colombia|Cartagena]], Colombia
*{{flagicon|ESP}} [[Menorca]], Spain
*{{flagicon|DOM}} [[Santo Domingo]], Dominican Republic

==Gallery==
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<gallery mode="packed" heights="180">
File:Saint Augustine,Florida,USA. - panoramio (11).jpg|[[Bell tower]] on northeast bastion of the [[Castillo de San Marcos]]
File:Saint Augustine,Florida,USA. - panoramio (13).jpg|North bastions and wall of the Castillo, looking eastward toward Anastasia Island
File:Saint Augustine,Florida,USA. - panoramio (12).jpg|Seawall south of the Castillo
File:City gate.jpg|The city gates of St. Augustine, built in 1808, part of the much older [[Cubo Line]]
File:St Aug Govt House Museum01.jpg|The [[Government House (St. Augustine)|Government House]]. East wing of the building dates to the 18th-century structure built on original site of the governor's residence.<ref name="Kornwolf2002">{{cite book|first=James D.|last=Kornwolf|title=Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HybqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22fronting%20on%20the%20plaza%22|year=2002|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0-8018-5986-1|page=87}}</ref>
File:Facade of Cathedral of St. Augustine.jpg|Facade of the Roman Catholic [[Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine (St. Augustine, Florida)|Cathedral of St. Augustine]]
File:OurLadyofLaLecheShrine-exterior.jpg|Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche at [[Mission Nombre de Dios]]
File:St Aug Mem Presby Church02.jpg|[[Memorial Presbyterian Church]]
File:The Lightner Museum.jpg|The former Hotel Alcazar now houses the [[Lightner Museum]] and City Hall
File:Flagler College, Ponce de Leon Hotel, St. Augustine FL, South courtyard view 20160707 1.jpg|[[Flagler College]], formerly the [[Ponce de Leon Hotel]]
File:Saint Augustine,Florida,USA. - panoramio (16).jpg|Bridge of Lions, looking eastward to Anastasia Island
File:Saint Augustine,Florida,USA. - panoramio (27).jpg|Tolomato Cemetery
</gallery></div>

==See also==
{{Portal|United States|Florida|North America|Cities|Geography}}
* [[Gálveztown (brig sloop)|''Gálveztown'' (brig sloop)]] – ship which played a role in the [[Gulf Coast campaign]] of the [[American Revolutionary War]] under [[Bernardo de Gálvez]], and its [[ship replica|replica]] built recently in Spain anticipating the 450th anniversary of St. Augustine's founding (1565–2015).
* [[St. Augustine movement]]
* St. Augustine Free Public Library opened in 1874 as a subscription library.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us {{!}} St. Johns County Public Library System |url=https://sjcpls.org/about/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Chillula {{!}} Visit St. Augustine |url=https://www.visitstaugustine.com/musician/chillula |access-date=2025-07-21 |website=www.visitstaugustine.com |language=en}}</ref>

==Further reading==
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* Abbad y Lasierra, Iñigo, "Relación del descubrimiento, conquista y población de las provincias y costas de la Florida" – "Relación de La Florida" (1785); edición de Juan José Nieto Callén y José María Sánchez Molledo.
* Colburn, David, ''Racial Change and Community Crisis: St. Augustine, Florida, 1877–1980'' (1985), New York: Columbia University Press.
* {{cite journal|jstor=2512931|title=Migration to a Spanish Imperial Frontier in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: St. Augustine|journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review|volume=54|issue=3|pages=414–430|last1=Corbett|first1=Theodore G.|year=1974|doi=10.2307/2512931}}
* Deagan, Kathleen, ''Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom'' (1995), Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
* Fairbanks, George R. (George Rainsford), ''History and antiquities of St. Augustine, Florida'' (1881), Jacksonville, Florida, H. Drew.
* Gannon, Michael V., ''The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida 1513–1870'' (1965), Gainesville: University Presses of Florida.
* Goldstein, Holly Markovitz, "[http://southernspaces.org/2012/st-augustines-slave-market-visual-history St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History]," ''Southern Spaces'', 28 September 2012.
* Gordon, Elsbeth, ''Florida's Colonial Architectural Heritage,'' University Press of Florida, 2002; ''Heart and Soul of Florida: Sacred Sites and Historic Architecture'', University Press of Florida, 2013
* Graham, Thomas, ''The Awakening of St. Augustine'', (1978), St. Augustine Historical Society
* Hanna, A. J., ''A Prince in Their Midst'', (1946), Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
* Harvey, Karen, ''America's First City'', (1992), Lake Buena Vista, Florida: Tailored Tours Publications.
* Harvey, Karen, ''St. Augustine Enters the Twenty-first Century'', (2010), Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company.
* Landers, Jane, ''Black Society in Spanish Florida'' (1999), Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
* Lardner, Ring, ''Gullible's Travels'', (1925), New York: Scribner's.
* Lyon, Eugene, ''The Enterprise of Florida'', (1976), Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
* Manucy, Albert, ''Menendez'', (1983), St. Augustine Historical Society.
* {{Citation |publisher = ABC-CLIO |isbn = 978-1-57607-027-7 |location = Santa Barbara, California |title = Historic Cities of the Americas |volume=2 |author = Marley, David F. |date = 2005 |chapter=United States: St. Augustine |page=627+ }}
* McCarthy, Kevin (editor), ''The Book Lover's Guide to Florida'', (1992), Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press.
* Nolan, David, ''Fifty Feet in Paradise: The Booming of Florida'', (1984), New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
* Nolan, David, ''The Houses of St. Augustine'', (1995), Sarasota, Florida: Pineapple Press.
* Porter, Kenneth W., ''The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom-Seeking People'', (1996), Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
* Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), ''Old Saint Augustine, a story of three centuries'', (1893), St. Augustine, Florida E. H. Reynolds.
* Torchia, Robert W., ''Lost Colony: The Artists of St. Augustine, 1930–1950'', (2001), St. Augustine: The Lightner Museum.
* Turner, Glennette Tilley, ''Fort Mose'', (2010), New York: Abrams Books.
* United States Commission on Civil Rights, 1965. ''Law Enforcement: A Report on Equal Protection in the South''. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
* Warren, Dan R., ''If It Takes All Summer: Martin Luther King, the KKK, and States' Rights in St. Augustine, 1964'', (2008), Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
* Waterbury, Jean Parker (editor), ''The Oldest City'', (1983), St. Augustine Historical Society.

==External links==
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===Government resources===
* [https://www.citystaug.com/ City of St. Augustine Official Website]
* [http://www.staugustineport.com/ St. Augustine Port, Waterway and Beach District]

===Local news media===
* [http://www.staugustine.com/ ''The St. Augustine Record/staugustine.com''], the city's daily print and online newspaper
* [http://www.historiccity.com/ ''Historic City News''], daily online news journal

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