Saturday, November 19, 2011

Cannons discovered near St. Augustine

This story is a follow-up to my post on American Loyalists (Liberty's Exiles, 6/30/11). 

For years, there have been several shipwreck excavation projects off the coast of St. Augustine.  Two of the cannons recently discovered off the coast of St. Augustine illustrate a link to the Loyalist history of Florida.  See today's article from the Florida Times-Union:
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2011-11-19/story/cannons-coast-reveal-clue-about-centuries-old-shipwreck-site-st

For further interest, see the St. Augustine Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)
 

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