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Show fi ma cm St. Augustine Was Once an In dian Village. j First Colony Established by French i Huguenots In 1564 Was Razed by the Spaniards and Ita Inhabitants Inhab-itants Killed. Rt Augustine, Kla. Four centuries ago an Indian town known as Beloy stood on the site of what Is now 8t. Augustine. On Hauler Sunday, 1512, Ponce do Leon, Spanish explorer, landed there In search or the "Fountain "Foun-tain of Youth." Alter he and bis men hd floundered through the sandy swamps of the vicinity and tramped among the scrub palmetto, bathed In very stream, pool and iiiudhole thoy cs'.me across, without success, they re-embarked re-embarked and the Indian village remained re-mained unmolested by white men for more than fifty years. A colony of French Huguenots landed land-ed at the same point in 1004, but soon moved on to the St. John's river. The news of their arrival reached Phillip II. of Spain, and upon realizing realiz-ing the full Import of tho message that a colony of Protestants was settling set-tling In his new world domain he dispatched dis-patched Pedro Miin ndez to exterminate extermi-nate them. This second group .of Invading Fpatilards lauded at the same Indian village on August 2.1, 15(15, and be-r;niHe be-r;niHe Unit was St. Atigustlno's day upon up-on the church calendar they gave the place It h preHi'iit name. St. Augustine Is conseipieiitly tho oldest permanent ettlement of Europeans within the territory of lite l ulled States. The I Insurant sett lenient was not permanent perma-nent for thtt reason Hint Menendcx and IiIh men destroyed their fort and massacred mas-sacred the Inhabitants. The first fort was built In octagonal ,'orin mid was constructed of the Ininks of pine trees. It was named Sun Juan i 1'Iiioh (St. John of tho r ? It A - . 1 v ( -r -a rf t .; l, i' "i t ? ' I ' ' - - i - '"'' M " City Gates, St. Augustine. fine). An engraving of the fort shows t was in this shape when Sir Franks Fran-ks Drake attacked St. Augustine In ISSii. Tho Tort was again attack! n 1C0.1 by John Davis, freebooter and juccaneer. The people fled to tho voods while Davis pllaged the town, .ater the fort was rebuilt and named -'ort Marlon, now the property of tho ederal government and maintained :hlefly as an Interesting antlue. rhousands or persons visit It annually, j In its early Ille St. Augustine was be most cosmopolitan city In the and and all because of a mixed col-any col-any or Mlnorcans. Italians, Greeks and natives of southern Kuropean countries coun-tries brought to the state In nt'.H as laborers for an Indigo plantation jwned by F.iirIIhIi capitalists. They fettled In New Smyrna, but soon rebelled re-belled ngnlnst their F.ngll.-h employers. employ-ers. That probably was the first or-Kiinlzed or-Kiinlzed labor strike In North America. Amer-ica. Moving to St. Augustine, where they were allotted lain! and given pro. lection, tho indigo plantation workers Intermarried wlib the Spanish nnd F.NRllsh resident and their descendants descend-ants form a l.irgi; proportion of tho population of the present city. In 1S2 1 the I'nltcd States paid Spain $5,000.1100 for the territory of Florida and General Andrew Jackson became Its first governor. Indian, pirate, Spaniard, Hrltlsh Invadereach In-vadereach In turn has scourged the town, but alter the passing of each It has arisen better than before, changed, but each time Improved In character. From the Indian village of Seloy, through four centuries of battle and change to the quaint old town with Its foreign airs, St. Augustine has become be-come a fashionable winter resort |