Sep 29, 2020 · Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez...

St. Augustine, Florida, the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European origin in the continental United States, was founded in 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.

Oct 16, 2023 · On September 8, 1565, Menéndez and his expedition landed and promptly founded St. Augustine, naming it after the saint on whose feast day they had first sighted land. Not wasting any time, Menéndez swiftly moved against the French.

Sep 3, 2015 · Today, St. Augustine survives as the nation’s oldest continuously occupied city, and is now gearing up for its 450th birthday bash. On September 8, 1565, Spanish explorer Don Pedro Menendez...

They were craftsmen, domestic workers, carpenters, farmers, and more. Heavily influenced by Catholicism, the Spanish system of slavery allowed enslaved people of all races certain civil rights. Lasting nearly two hundred years, St. Augustine’s first Spanish Period laid the foundation for the centuries to come.

Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation's first enduring settlement.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés hastened across the Atlantic, his sights set on removing the French and creating a Spanish settlement. Menéndez arrived in 1565 at a place he called San Augustín (St. Augustine) and established the first permanent …

When Pedro Menéndez de Avilés established St. Augustine in 1565, he was accompanied by free and enslaved Africans. They worked on early fortifications, sawed timber, and built several structures, including a church, a blacksmith shop, and an artillery platform.

On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the shore of Seloy, a large Timucuan town that was situated just opposite what was to become St. Augustine inlet. Menendez was on a military mission to deal with a French incursion into Spain’s new world territory.

Aug 20, 2021 · The next day, August 28, the feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, the sailors sighted land. Sailing further north, the captain, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, found a small bay and named it San Agustín in honor of the saint on whose feast he first saw the coast.