THE ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE
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N 29° 52.517 W 081° 17.080
17R E 472510 N 3304999
THE ST. AUGUSTINE AMPHITHEATRE
Waymark Code: WMVJA
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2006
Views: 60
This 2,000 seat theatre is built on the site of the royal Spanish quarry, where the native shellstone called coquina was dug and ferried across Mantanzas Bay for the construction of Castillo de San Marcos and many other early structures in colonial St. Augustine. Here on June 27, 1965, the Paul Green symphonic drama CROSS AND SWORD was first presented to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the founding of St. Augustine.
There is also an active cache and a virtual cache near this site.
Marker Number: No number.
Date: 1965
County: St Johns
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: ST. JOHNS COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION
Website: Not listed
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