St.
Augustine is a city in St. Johns County,
Florida, in the United States. It
lies in a region of Florida known
as the First Coast. According to the
2000 census, the city population was
11,592. In 2004, the population estimated
by the U.S. Census Bureau was 12,157.
It is the county seat of St. Johns
County. St. Augustine is the longest
continually occupied European settlement
in the continental United States;
the early Spanish explorers and settlers
knew present-day Florida and the southwest
well. The first Christian worship
service held in the current United
States was actually a Catholic Mass
celebrated in what we know today as
St. Augustine. A few settlements were
founded prior to St. Augustine but
all failed, including the original
Pensacola colony in West Florida.
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