Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-03-25
MANY POINTS
OF INTEREST
JACKSONVILLE HAS MANY HIS
ORC POINTS TO SHOW THE con
FEDEEhTE VETERANS NENT
MONTH.
OLD ST. AUGUSTINE
OLDEST TOWN IN THE UNITED
STATES IL LOCATED NEAR JACK
SCNNIILE MANY OTIIEl, HIS
IDHi' PLACES.

fk>pHNliif. TIKI ndifu - h'i'
IRE 4 great many points Of historic il
'r,~t around Jacksonville for people u
ri~it when they come 10 the Confederate
reunion here ia Nav. Just south Of Jack
%"nyille. for example. j. old ~. August
'uc. one of the wonders Of the American
continent.
situated on the Atlantic ocean. but
civ miles south of Jacksonville. -.
\y-i,iinc will bc visited bv hundreds
II people during reunion week. This an
Client city. with its forts aud ills missions
It's MEDIEVAL ruins and lis narrow street
together with its modern hotels. j. the
oldest settlement in America.
The settlement AZ -. Augustine ante
dates that Of jamestown 10y forty three
wears: IL l. fitty-fiNc wears older than
the Plymouth colony. Historians write
much If jamestown and Plymouth. poets
sing # them. ~ the oldest settlements IN
the new world. each seemingly ohlivipu>
10 the fact that 1t. Augustine j. more
than a generation older than either.
~. Augustine with its splendid old
age aHd much modernism j. but Il cnH
pc Of hours ride from the thriving city
az Jacksonville. with its modern XIV
Scrapcrs and twentieth century enter
prise. \ visit IT, the ancient city will bc
one Of the many delightful and clucat
me side trips for reunion visitors. They
viii criov the trip and eel u chance To-
took down the ccuturc> of 80 wears.
For more than 1n0 wears 81 Augustine
r' -" Spanish capital Of Florida:
nj the Florida of those DAYS extended
rom the Chesapeake BAY 10 the Pacific
traln M-1N an Imnp.unuils Nfrnnn
bold ~ of those wears. old Fort Marior.
hraun in ll13 and finished IN l1..6. il the
'r'y mctli1cval castle ia America. II eos
" enormous sum of money. Repeated
heavy drafts of the builders caused The
king If Snain IT, inquire il they wcr"
building Fort Marion &c gold dollar
The castle stands TODAY in perfect cnnhi
ION. guarded hv the United States COY
"'um"ut. The keeper conducts visitors
'hrouah the castle. down into the dem
-"n"S aud shows YOU rings in the VIII.
vhcr" victims of Spanish oppression
rcrr chained ~ die. Report f1irlv we'll
authenticated has il that when ~" cnS
Ne fen into the hands 80 the E''ti>h
'wo skeletons were found IN one M trrc
Iurp"nnS chained 10 the wall. o. WIS
y man the other was i wor'u Thor"
l. something uucanny about 'h"," dun
econS bat can not hc describe ~ word
nf mouth.
VI should hc borne ia mird 'h"t while
there has been great improvement in
old -. Augustine that IA" rnr''"t llud
mrrk> have been preserve rh" Oh
~it' ont" j. intact. aud S"''ih "''"u
"ill fiud much 10 interest h'w wv For
'.,rr of antinnitic>. Wow S.ra,'~
Characterized III SPANISH :nvrS of r".l
ilcval times. There ~" .%trrrt> ~ It
>ugu>iinr not more thar t"n ~ I"yrn
feet wide. each side lived 9TH the ~lmc
TYNE ~ bindings that wore ~ "u~'om
'hr.r ~ four centuries ""' IN" nlA
Snnninrl held ~ the Ar-'~t,, that ior
was cor rest and uiuhi f,r >inpn n"d ~
rcli.i"uSly observed hi~ program sc n"
li"f The visitor SOC. '~r"h 80 It~ VI"
ocriur belief ~ The 49, ....,, ", thi~ r-,
I"lilr a. runthrr .'u'' .f 49,. TOWN. -
finds evidences tfa. '--. y r1,"i"-
now ccad and "n.c n-t h'. >ri~i' -"I
enterprise into tru r..-r.vvity Tho Pow
90, dc Leon and thr ,l~,-rr ~" towerin"
monuments H. Nv. ll-"i- -"i-'t -
~Nnru.tiur heat. 'lr -.-'l c- h-filfr~.
that represent ~. w."' "r,dc> of nrrhi
lecture FROM lrp9 w l9li W Y period VI
tim" ~ 1In ,r'r,.
The man Who doi,r- iu'D %ar'in"i '"~
viii lind uurh W. iutnr..t Li ,.-p Flor
idr. for this ~t.'r n. nrrh- 'lt 'hn most
wonderful l,r' in N"r~iro vh-n the
continent U.s. ; ,t,-..> ,f rrrtf'.u
custer, rr .,.tr f.l-u1. rifur fhti-
hrad> pnf MI fI. >.- -.o,...l i.,, owl
th.rr ,p wv. n. Tr t-f, WV. .f-~-lp
These ,l-...-~ .r -'.rr. .~n ir.vu n~
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