The St. Augustine Lighthouse has been watching over our section of coastline since 1874. Today it is a living museum demonstrating how important our nation's lighthouse system has been to our country. In addition to the museum located in the light keeper's house, you'll find a lot about our maritime history and the on-going archaeological efforts to preserve it. A stop at the lighthouse is both entertaining and informative.
Learn more at the St. Augustine Lighthouse web site.
Company B: 1864
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/03/2010 - 5:21pm.August 1864. Petersburg, Virginia. "Siege of Petersburg. Group of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion." Wet plate glass negative. View full size.
John Sevier (1745–1815), US statesman
A fascinating man from our colonial frontier history and an impressive example of how to document a life on WeRelate.
Reminders of the Second Seminole War“The Dogs of War”.
By Geoff Dobson
On August 14, 1842 at Depot Key, General William J. Worth declared the Florida War, now known as the Second Seminole War, at an end. The war had lasted seven years.
The war had commenced with the killing of civilians at Fort King, present day Ocala, and the Massacre of Captain (Brevet Major) Francis L. Dade and his men at Wahoo Swamp sixty-five miles north of Fort Brooke on December 28, 1835.
It took several days for official word to be received by the army at Fort Brooke (present day Tampa). Unofficially, there was a realization that something had gone amiss when the dog of one of the three survivors of the massacre, Captain Charles Gardiner, reappeared, wounded, at the Fort. It was, perhaps, the only time when the military received word of a disaster in the field from a dog.
This monument at the Mission of Nombre de Dios represents Father Lopez, who arrived with Menendez to found the settlement at St. Augustine, as he celebrates the first mass for the new colony.
