Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (U. S. National Park Service) Built by the Spanish in St Augustine to defend Florida and the Atlantic trade route, Castillo de San Marcos National Monument preserves the oldest masonry fortification in the continental United States and interprets more than 450 years of cultural intersections
Castillo de San Marcos - Wikipedia The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for “ St Mark ’s Castle”) is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay in St Augustine, Florida
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Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Over 320 years old, the 20-acre site of Castillo de San Marcos stands proud as the oldest and largest masonry fortress within the continental United States Discover what lays within this impenetrable fort
Park Archives: Castillo de San Marcos National Monument Castillo de San Marcos was for many years the northernmost outpost of Spain's vast New World empire It is the oldest masonry fort and the best-preserved example of a Spanish colonial fortification in the continental United States
Florida: Castillo de San Marcos National Monument - NPS Castillo de San Marcos stands today as a monument to the Spanish empire’s 300-year occupation of Florida and to the interaction and clashes of cultural groups that built the unified nation that is the United States today