Worcester morning daily spy. (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898, 1898-01-30
OLD ST. AUGUSTINE.

Some one has written that "a resort
without tradition is like country
without history" St Augustine, the
oldest settlement in America by 40
years, has BOTH but they are so inter-
mingled that it is very difficult to sep
arate tt.em. The visitor who relies upon
guide books and the so-called "histor-
les of superficial readers, is utterly lost
First Of all, the "Hugueuot cemetery"
does not exist except in tradition or fic-
ton. The Huguemnots came in 1862 and
two years later, in 1864, the place was
taken by the Spaniards. A few of the
latter died and were buried in the spot
now enormously called the "Huguenot
cemetery" but there We're no marble
tombstones placed over their graves.
The 200 B'renchmen WHO We're n1assacred
by the Spanish when they captured Fort
| Caroline We're left unburied for the
wolves and vultures to prey upon Those
! who We're shipwreckeds at Cape Cana
vareL after surrendering, suffered a
similar fate and dissertation The few
whose lives We're spared returned to
France, and thus ended The Huguenot
settlement in Florida and the ATTEMPT
OF france to colonize this VAST country.
true, DE GoTsues came with fleet
the following year to revenge the death
I OF his counrymen and while seeking
national revenge he had an old score to
settle with the Spaniards. who few
years previously had captured him and
sent him to work in the galleys.
| He in turn surprised the Spaniards.
ana after taking their fort put them to
death, about 200 in all, only a few es-
! Gaping. Some he hanged, in retaliation
tfor the trenchmen whom the Spaniards
! had thus murdered He then burned the
wooden fort and the few buildings and
returned to France. He did not come
with the Intention Of effecting a settle
ment, and did not attempt it. Neither
4 did he come in search of the gold and
peaHs, which We're said to be SO album
/ dantS but for revenge alone.
/ 80 1t VIII be seen thar the "Huguenot
! cemetery, the oldest in the United
states, is only a tradition
Next. careful investigation shows that
the 'old Spanish slave-market' is also
u myth In the plaza where the present
market stands, which was built in 1910
there stood primitive structure, where
I We're sold fish and vegetables, to which
the Spanish housewives We're summoned
by the loud changing Of a bell at what
4 ever hour Of the day the vegetable and
fish vendors arrived Slaves may have
4 been sold there, as at auction-rooms but
4 the market was not built for that pur-
! pose and was not called 4 slave mar
j.et'' mill tbe TTnitad states acaiiirad
/ Florida
/ Another pleasing fiction is the oldest
house IN rbe TTnited Sfofas )" said n h.
move tban three rent1lriss Old Thew az.
/ several of these in St. Augustine aut
I visitors have their choice They have
not read, perhaps, that the village was
( sacked and burned t,roa fir1ns III
r,iratea a ffer the E,rencb had iaia II Il
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