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Date: November 22, 2016
St. Augustine, FL – Even though ferry access to Fort Matanzas is still unavailable due to damage from Hurricane Matthew, join park staff and volunteers for a free event at the Fort Matanzas National Monument Visitor Center on Anastasia Island.
Even though ferry access to Fort Matanzas is still unavailable due to damage from Hurricane Matthew, join park staff and volunteers for a free event at the Fort Matanzas National Monument Visitor Center on Anastasia Island.
On Saturday, December 3, 2016, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., join park volunteers and staff for on-going demonstrations highlighting the colonial kitchen. Reenactors dressed as Spanish colonial women will describe the life of a typical woman in Saint Augustine and demonstrate how foods from three different cultures combined to create some of the best dishes available in 1740s colonial Spanish Florida. Produce from three very different cultures - Native American, African, and Spanish - will be on display, with conversations about how each of these cultures influenced the Spanish kitchen.
If using a GPS to locate us, our address is 8635 A1A South, St. Augustine, FL 32080.
The park is located 14 miles south of St. Augustine on Anastasia Island and four miles south of SR 206 on Highway A1A. For additional information, call 904-471-0116 or www.nps.gov/foma.
Fort Matanzas National Monument preserves the fortified watchtower, completed in 1742, which defended the southern approach to the Spanish military settlement of St. Augustine, and protects approximately 300 acres of Florida coastal environment.
