British Barracks
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
St. Augustine, Florida
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Number 3 in a series of the Castillo
British troops moved to St. Augustine after Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain in exchange for the fortified harbor and city of La Habana, Cuba in 1763. Wooden second floors were built in the high Spanish vaults to provide more space for quarters and supplies. Florida would be returned to Spain at the close of the American Revolution in 1783
The oldest masonry fort and 21st oldest man made structure in the Continental United States the construction of Castillo de San Marcos began in 1672 and was completed in 1695. Considered to be the best preserved example of a Spanish colonial fortification the United States the fort sits along the waterfront near the downtown of the nations oldest surviving European settlement St. Augustine.
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