Tuesday, August 28, 2007

 

This Day in the History of the Race not Going to the Swift

On this day in 1565, the oldest city in America, St. Augustine, FL, was founded by the Spanish, beating the Jamestown settlement by 42 years. The fort built later to protect the town from sea bombardment is still there.

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