Coquina forts at Charleston and Savannah ... Stephen Tuttle was assigned to St. Augustine to oversee repairs to St. Augustine's seawall and to Fort Marion (as Castillo de San Marcos was called ...

One of only two fortifications in the world built with coquina (the second being Fort Matanzas National Monument on the southern end of St. Augustine's Anastasia Island), the fort remains a ...

The Matanzas inlet was the only weakness to Castillo De San Marcos and St. Augustine so Fort Matanzas was constructed in 1740 ...

So, yes, St. Augustine—not Jamestown ... From the visitor center, we were ferried to the fort, where we examined its unique building material: coquina, a type of limestone consisting of shells ...

St. Augustine rebuilt. In 1668, English pirates destroyed it again. It was time, the Spaniards decided, to build a proper fort. They stockpiled Anastasia Island coquina on the St. Augustine ...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine opened a new replica of a 1738 fort that holds a ...

It might seem strange that Florida, a state enamored with the new and quick to bulldoze the old, is home to the nation’s oldest city. And when you visit St. Augustine, you might wonder how its ...

St. Augustine’s storied Castillo de San Marcos was built by the Spanish between 1672 and 1695. This iconic fort is constructed of coquina – a sedimentary rock dredged from the ocean floor.