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Identifier: historictownsofsou00powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the Southern States
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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covered.Durinor the nigflit, a fifer came out to the Heetplaying the Prince of Orange march, and in-formed Sir Francis that the Spaniards hadabandoned their fort. This report proved tobe true, and Sir Francis found that in theirhaste they had left behind some ten thousanddollars in the treasury chest. Being firedupon by some of the inhabitants, he burnedthe town. An engraved plan of Drakes descent uponSt. Augustine, published in England upon hisreturn, represents an octagonal fort betweentwo streams, and at the distance of half a mileanother stream, and beyond that the town,with a lookout and church and monastery.The plan shows three squares lengthwise, andfour in breadth, with gardens on the west side.The relative position of the town with refer-ence to the entrance to the harbor is correctlyshown, and there seems no sufficient o-roundto doubt the identity of the present city withthe original location. The province was then under the govern-ment of Don Pedro Menendez, a nephew of the
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570 St. Augustine Adelantado, who, after the departure of theEnehsh fleet under Drake, beiran, with someassistance from Havana, to rebuild the town. A body of Franciscan missionaries cameto Florida in 1592, and established missionsamong- the Indians at various points along thecoast and in the interior. For a time consid-erable apparent success attended these efforts ;but a few years later a concerted attack wasmade by the Indians upon the missionaries,several of whom were massacred at their posts.Hostilities became active in 1638 between theAppalachian Indians and the Spanish settle-ments upon the coast. The Indians were soonsubdued, large numbers were brought to St.Augustine, and as a punishment for their out-break they were forced to labor—it is said forsixty years — upon the public works and thefortifications, in quarrying and transporting thecoquina stone from Anastasia Island. About this period the English settlementsin Carolina were established, which was con-sidered an encr

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