Meet your escort/guide and motor coach at 8:30
AM then at 9:00 AM we board our coach and head
for the oldest continuously occupied city in the
United States, St. Augustine. We will take A1A
down. Most people don't know that our beaches are
on a barrier island. We will ride on the island
to St. Augustine with narration & history along
the way.
Learn how St. Augustine became the “Oldest
Continuously occupied city”. At 10:00
AM we start our tour.
Drive by with narration & history
:
Fountain of Youth, Old Jail, Mission
of Nombre de Dios ( Shrine) where first Catholic
mass was said, Castillo de San Marcos our nations
oldest monument, and much more of the “Oldest
City”.
We will also see Magnolia St., listed in the National
Geographic as one of the most
beautiful streets in America. We will hear
about Henry Flagler and his three wives. We will
also see & go into one of
the amazing buildings Henry had built. We will
go in the church Henry built to the glory of God
and in the memory of his daughter, Jenny Louise.
After Jenny’s daughter died at birth. Jenny
was on her way to St. Augustine from New York
to spend some time with her father. Jenny died
on the family yacht in 1889.
Henry ordered the church to be built before the
anniversary of Jenny’s death. It took a crew
of 1000 men working in two shifts, 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, to complete the church
in 361 days.
Now at about 11:45 AM free time for shopping and
lunch on St. George St. At 3:30 PM we board our coach
and head back to your hotel.
Group lunch can be
arranged.