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Title: The Standard guide to St. Augustine and Fort Marion. Practical information for tourists, descriptions of all points of interests; and an historical summary
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Reynolds, E. H. (Edward Henry), ed
Subjects: Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Publisher: St. Augustine, Fla., E.H. Reynolds
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, whether ones stay here be short or long. The princij^al i)oints to be seen are : Thk Ruins of the Gate. Fort M.arion. Plaz.\ and Surroundings. These may most conveniently be visited in the order given. TheFort is the most important, and as much time should be reserved forthat as for all the others combined. Then there are the seawall, thebarracks and the military cemetery, the narrow streets—such ashave not lost their picturesqueness—and numerous excursions byland and water to various points named elsewhere. The principal street is St. George, extending north and souththrough the centre of the town. On this ttreet are the PresbyterianChurch, Fo.st Office, Florida House, Magnolia Hotel and City Gate-way. The Shell Road which passes the Hotel San Marco is a con-tinuation of St. George street. West of St. George, and parallel withit, is Tolomato. East, and parallel, is Charlotte. Marine street ison the water front, north of the Plaza; Bay street on the waterfrontsouth of the Plaza.
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: , ST. GEORGK STREET. 16 The Standaid Guide. St. Francis street, at the southern end of the town, is famous forthe overhangin.tr date pahn tree which has so often been pictured.Another well-known street is the narrow lane called Treasurj^ street,across which, with back to opposite wall, two persons may readilygrasp hands. Some of these street names are suggestive of incidents in thetowns romantic history. St. Francis commemorates the labors andself sacrifice of the Franciscan mission fathers, whose monastic institu-tion was on the site where the barracks now stand. Tolomato per-petuates the name of the Indian village where, in 1597, certain ofthese Franciscans were heartlessly m.assacred by their rebelliousfiocks. Cuna and St. Hypolita were given in the Spanish supremacy.St. George street was so called in honor of Englands patron saint,and Charlotte was the name of the queen of King George IV. Old St. Augustine states that the name Treasury is from theSpanish term, which signified th

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