The Fascinating Story of America's Oldest City: St. Augustine, Florida

The Fascinating Story of America's Oldest City: St. Augustine, Florida. America's oldest city was founded in the middle of a hurricane — and it's been surviving disaster after disaster ever since. In September 1565, Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés came ashore in Florida after a storm had already wrecked part of his fleet. He founded St. Augustine anyway. Over the following four hundred sixty years, this city has burned to the ground, survived multiple sieges, and today still floods almost every time it rains. This is the full story of St. Augustine: from the Castillo de San Marcos, the coquina-stone fortress that shouldn't have worked but somehow did, to Henry Flagler's Gilded Age hotels that turned a colonial outpost into one of America's most fashionable winter destinations. We walk St. George Street, climb the lighthouse, take a ghost tour after dark, and explore exactly why this city has now spent seventy million dollars trying to keep the water out of its four-hundred-year-old streets. If you've visited St. Augustine, walked St. George Street, or have your own story from this city, we'd love to hear it in the comments. 🔔 Subscribe for more deep dives into the American places that refuse to disappear. . . . . . . . . #staugustine #staugustineflorida #oldestcity #americancities