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Published: December 29th 2015
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From Wikipedia:
The
Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry
fort in the continental United States (
Castillo San Felipe del Morroin San Juan, Puerto Rico is older). Located on the western shore of
Matanzas Bay in the city of
St. Augustine,
Florida, the fort was designed by the Spanish engineer
Ignacio Daza.
Construction began in 1672,
107 years after the city's founding by
Spanish Admiral and
conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, when Florida was part of the
Spanish Empire. The fort's construction was ordered by Governor
Francisco de la Guerra y de la Vega after the destructive raid of the English privateer
Robert Searles in 1668.
Work proceeded under the administration of Guerra's successor,
Manuel de Cendoya in 1671,
although the first stone was not laid until 1672.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_San_Marcos
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