Seminole
Sight-Seeing
Service, Inc.
25 HOGAN STREET
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
PHONE 734
COMPLETE TOUR OF POINTS OF INTEREST LISTED IN THIS BOOKLET
Office, Waiting Room
AND
Main Starting Point
Seminole Hotel Building
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
F.W. HOBBS, Proprietor
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE, INC.
25 Hogan Street
TRIP NUMBER ONE
All Day Tour of St. Augustine
Leaves Jacksonville 10:300 A.M., arriving in St. Augustine 12:30 P.M. We then spend three hours sight-seeing St. Augustine, leaving there at 3:30 P.M., arriving in Jacksonville 5:30 P.M.
This is a trip that should not be overlooked by visitors to the South. A ninety-mile drive of beautiful Florida scenery, a complete lectural tour of the oldest city in the United States- first discovered by Ponce de Leon in the year 1513 in his search for the Fountain of Perpetual Youth, and founded in 1565 by Pedro Menendez. It has passed successively under Spanish, English and American rule. Four hundred years of occupation by romantic people has filled the city with many a historic pile to excite the interest and admiration of the visitor. The older buildings are constructed of native coquina, and the newer ones of coquina shell mixed with sand and cement to form concrete. In some of the narrow streets one finds quaint little houses with overhanding balconies that make one think he has been suddenly transported to some half-forgotten city of long ago. We also find Fort San Marco, known now as Fort Marion- founded in the year 1665 in the reign of Don Frederick Vi, king of Spain- the work being directed by Captain Don Medro de Brogas, Spanish engineer; the City Gates, a landmark of the city and the only remaining portion of defense walls; St. Patrick's Cathedral, completed in the year 1791 and burned in the year 1887; and the only walls still remaining. There is also one of the original bells bearing the inscription "Sancha Joseph Ora Pro Nobles A. D. 1682." The present sea wall was built by the United States in 1835 to '37, as a completement to the repairs of Fort Marion, and an expense of $100,000. The oldest house was built by the Monks of St. Francais in the year 1665, and was used by them as a chapel; the brass knocker on the door having been originally on the door of Ponce de Leon's castle in Seville, Spain.
FORT MARION
PONCE DE LEON HOTEL
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE, INC.
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE, INC.
25 Hogan Street
A TOUR THROUGH THE OLDEST CITY IN THE UNITED STATES
Some of the interesting places on our tour are as follows:
St. Augustine Club and Golf Links.
School for Deaf and Dumb.
St. Augustine Water Works.
North City, or Suburban Section of City.
Fort Marion.
Old City Gates, landmark of city.
Ponce de Leon, or the Fountain of Youth.
Old Protestant Cemetery.
Orange Grove.
Fashionable Apartments
Old Spanish Barracks, destroyed by fire in 1915.
U.S. National Cemetery.
Oldest House in the United States.
U.S. Reservation.
Flagstaff and Sunset Gun.
St. George Street.
Flagler Memorial Hospital.
Cathedral Parish School.
St. Joseph Academy.
Villa Flora.
Hotel St. George.
Ponce de Leon Hotel.
Alcazar Hotel.
Old Flagler Estate.
F. E. C. Hospital for Employees Only.
Flagler Memorial Church and Mausoleum.
First Methodist Church.
Municipal Building.
F. E. C. Railway Station.
Hotel Magnolia.
Grace Church.
Old Spanish Cemeterty.
Scene of Large Fine in 1914.
Site of Old Spanish Treasury.
New St. Johns County Court House.
St. Augustine Yacht Club.
Old Slave Market
Matanzas Bay.
Lighthouse on Anastasia Island.
U.S. Wireless Station.
Hotel Bennett.
Narrowest Street in the U.S.
Town Square Noted for its Spanish Characteristics.
Confederate Memorial.
Spanish Constitution Monument.
Oldest Catholic Church in the United States.
Old Sun Dial, the way they told time in ancient days.
Bishop's Residence.
Oldest Postoffice and Government Building in the United States.
Trinity Church.
Old City Wall Surrounding City.
OLD CITY GATES
OLDEST HOUSE
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE. INC.
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE, INC.
25 Hogan Street
TRIP NUMBER TWO
Pablo and Atlantic Beaches
This is a four-hour trip and especially attractive for its wide variety of pastime and pleasure.
Our cars leave for these wonderful Beaches twice a day, taking in fifty-mile trip to the finest beaches on the Atlantic Coast. Here sweep the balmy breezes of the Atlantic Ocean, where Jacksonville's most prominent citizens spend their summers.
This Beach at low tide is about fifty-two mile long and three hundred yards wide. This enables you to have a ten-mile ride on the same beach where many noted races have been held.
Beach Motoring, Surf Bathing and Golf are enjoyed here practically all the year around.
A brick paved highway runs right to the Ocean's edge, through a most beautiful shaded and tropical livid sketch of Southern scenery.
LOOK for the IVORY and BROWN BUS
LOOK for the IVORY and BROWN BUS
JACKSONVILLE BEACH- PABLO
The World's Finest Beach and Boulevard
Extending for about 52 miles from St. Johns River to St. Augustine
SEMINOLE SIGHT-SEEING SERVICE, INC.
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