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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
Illustration from:
Gonzalo Solís de Merás.
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
Deland: Florida State Historical Society, 1923.
HMSF, gift of J. Deering Danielson.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine and the Spanish colony La Florida in 1565.

Image no. 2001-419-1

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