| Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - Liczba stron: 1030
...the safest and most roomy harbors on the gulf: the government has a navy-yarc here. St Augustine is the oldest town in the United States, having been settled by the Spaniards almost fifty years before the English reared their huts at Jamestown in Virginia. South of Florida,... | |
| Oliver and Boyd messrs - 1879 - Liczba stron: 638
...interred in the church. Pop. 1900. St Augustine, mint au'gus-ttfrt, a seaport of Florida, USt 160 m. S. of Savannah ; it has the distinction of being the oldest town in the US Pop. 1717. St Auetell, saint au'sttl (named from the hermit St Austol), a town of England, со.... | |
| Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1881 - Liczba stron: 144
...is in the northern part, and is situated in a healthy region. St. Augustine, on the east coast, is the oldest town in the United States, having been settled by the Spaniards in 1565. Jacksonville is a flourishing commercial town. Pensacola is noted for its fine harbor : it is a United... | |
| 1884 - Liczba stron: 616
...interred in the church. Pop. 1901. 8t Augustine, saint au'fjus-tfen, a seaport of Florida, US, 160 m. S. of Savannah ; it has the distinction of being the oldest town in the US Pop. 2293. Bt Austell, mint au'stcl (named from the hermit St Austol), a town of England, со.... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - 1890 - Liczba stron: 338
...lights and music and gay society, that we might have been in the very heart of Paris. St. Augustine is the oldest town in the United States, having been settled by the Spaniards in 1565, forty-two years before Captain John Smith landed at Jamestown, fifty-five years before the Pilgrims... | |
| Lilian Whiting - 1906 - Liczba stron: 436
...composed over fourteen thousand. A prominent padre in this movement was Eusebio Francisco Kino. Santa Fe has the distinction of being the oldest town in the United States, having been established fifteen years before the landing of the Pilgrims. The mission church of San Xavier del... | |
| |