The seawalls at Castillo de San Marcos sit at the lowest elevation in the city’s seawall system, making one of the oldest ...

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 ...

The City Gates and Fort Matanzas National Monument also must be fixed. O'Neill said the cement is removed and then replaced. In some cases, the coquina is too damaged and voids have developed.

ST. AUGUSTINE ... Wilson gazed at the coquina walls and said, "Everything wears out after a while." That goes for even a 300-year-old fort that has never fallen to a military enemy.

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 ...

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 ...