Guard Room
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument
St. Augustine, Florida
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Number 4 in a series of the Castillo
Living in town, the Spanish soldiers did not live inside the Castillo. Instead they had a rotating guard duty, usually 24 hrs, and they slept and prepared their meals here. The large fireplace in the back offered a place to cook meals and kept the men warm on chilly days.
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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