Join us on May 9 & 10 for our St. Augustine History Festival Tours
May 9, Friday from 11:00 to 3:00
May 10, Saturday from 11:00 to 3:00
Don’t Forget that Sunday, May 11, is Mother’s Day – we have something special we’d like to say about her!
On January 20, 1887, eighteen Baptists gathered in an opera house on St. George Street to form what we know as the Ancient City Baptist Church. Converts to the church were baptized in the Matanzas Bay north of Fort Marion (the Castillo de San Marcos). On February2, 1896, after the membership raised $10,000, Henry Flagler made good in his pledge of $5,000 and an enviable lot of land at the corner of Carrera and Sevilla where the church sits today.