Photo Galleries: Public Sites in Spanish
Florida
The photos below were taken at sites open to the public
across greater Spanish Florida, and show original and
reconstructed colonial structures from the Spanish period.
Mission San Luís
/ Castillo de San Marcos /
Fort Caroline /
Pensacola Bay Area
Mission San Luís, Tallahassee
Mission San Luis
is the most extensive reconstructed Spanish mission site in the Southeastern
United States, and includes a range of Spanish and Apalachee structures
reconstructed at the archaeological site of the administrative center of the
Apalachee mission province from 1656 to 1704, San Luís de Talimali. In
addition to an active living history program and a museum and gift shop,
archaeological fieldwork is sporadically conducted on-site.
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Apalachee council house. |
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Interior of the Apalachee council
house. |
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Mission church and convento at San
Luís. |
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Interior of mission church at San
Luís. |
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Spanish house at San Luís. |
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Interior of Spanish house. |
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Fort at Mission San Luís. |
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Blockhouse inside the fort. |
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Castillo de San Marcos, St.
Augustine
The Castillo de San Marcos
is an impressive stone fort built beginning in 1672, in part as a Spanish
response to the foundation of Charleston, South Carolina two years earlier by
English colonists. The stone for the fort, called coquina, was quarried on
Anastasia Island across the harbor using Indian workers from the Florida
missions. Assaulted on several occasions by English forces, the fort has
never been conquered in battle, and is one of the oldest original colonial
structures in Spanish Florida.
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The Castillo de San Marcos. |
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Gate to the Castillo. |
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Bastion overlooking the harbor. |
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Harbor-side fortifications. |
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Fort Caroline, Jacksonville
The site of the short-lived French
Fort
Caroline (1564-1565) near the mouth of the St. Johns River has never been
identified archaeologically, but not far from its probable original location is
the mid-20th-century reconstruction of this fort at the edge of the river.
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Fort Caroline reconstruction. |
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Interior of Fort Caroline. |
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Pensacola Bay Area
Though little remains above ground or water of the extensive First
Spanish Period (1698-1763) occupation alongside Pensacola Bay, standing
structures from the Second Spanish Period (1781-1821) do remain, as well as
archaeological evidence remains of all four of Pensacola's earliest Spanish
settlements, including Santa María de Ochuse (1559-1561, as yet undiscovered)
and the contemporaneous sunken fleet of Tristán de Luna, Presidio Santa María de
Galve (1698-1719) at
Naval Air
Station Pensacola, Presidio Isla de Santa Rosa (1722-1756) on Santa Rosa
Island at Gulf
Islands National Seashore, and Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola (1756-1763)
under modern downtown Pensacola.
Another highlight is the T.T.
Wentworth Museum, which contains exhibits about Pensacola's Spanish history,
as well as exhibits at the UWF
Archaeology Institute.
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Street scene at Historic Pensacola
Village. |
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1805 Julee Cottage. |
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Luna expedition exhibit in T.T.
Wentworth Museum. |
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Artifact display from Emanuel Point
I wreck at T.T. Wentworth. |
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Diving platform above the Emanuel
Point wrecks (2007). |
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1805 Lavalle House. |
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Yard in living history village. |
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Diorama of Emanuel Point I shipwreck in T.T.
Wentworth. |
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Exhibit on Spanish presidios of Pensacola at
T.T. Wentworth. |
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Bateria San Antonio (Second Spanish Period)
overlooking Pensacola Bay entrance and Santa Rosa Island. |
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