San Marcos de Apalache - St. Marks, North Florida ~ Saturday, May 4, 2013: Pirate Ship Port Investigation Trip #1 - North Florida. A weekend exploration of the ports in North Florida as a potential docking home for a Pirate Ship (Gypsy Rose VI) we are considering buying/have built. Photography (c) 2013 Thomas Baurley, Eadaoin Bineid, Leaf McGowan, Technogypsie Productions. www.technogypsie.com/photography/. To follow the stories and tales visit http://www.technogypsie.com/reviews/ and http://www.technogypsie.com/chronicles/
Wooden stockades were built here by the Spanish in 1680 and 1758. These were destroyed by a hurricane which drowned the garrison. A masonry fort was begun in 1759 but was soon abandoned to the Indians for a trading post and Indian rendezvous. It was reoccupied by the Spanish in 1783. General Andrew Jackson seized and occupied the fort in 1819. It became a United States possession in 1821 upon purchase of the territory from Spain.
