Historic City News has been following a move that has ignited a fierce debate in Florida's Senate, focusing specifically on Confederate memorials. The proposed legislation seeks to prevent the removal of historic state monuments as occurred in St Augustine in August 2020. The local cenotaph, currently on loan at the Trout Creek Fish Camp in…
Historic City News was notified by Bill Dudley, Chairman of the Veterans Council of St Johns County, that on Thursday evening, November 23, 2023, St Augustine lost one of the Council’s founding members, Sgt Major Ray Quinn, US Army (Retired). Quinn, who previously served as Chairman, was totally immersed in the organization’s non-profit operations, currently…
In a quote attributed to George Orwell in 1984, now suffering the challenges of disputed parentage, it is said that the most effective way to destroy people is to "deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history". As of last week, whoever can correctly claim those words does so with growing support in the…
Michael Gold, FounderHistoric City News Twenty-three years ago today, March 18, 2000, I registered the HistoricCity.com domain name and began writing and publishing what was considered unconventional at the time – a completely online version of a local community news journal with extensive photo galleries. As residents were still in search of ways to use…
The story of Historic City News starts in St Augustine, Florida with the registration of the HistoricCity.com domain which was completed on March 18, 2000. The Historic City newsletter began as a weekly e-mail and was not supported by a public-facing website. We originally focused on people of interest in public service and people of…