South of the city of St. Augustine is the area’s second-most famous fort, Fort Matanzas. It was built by the Spanish in the 1740s at the mouth of the Matanzas River to serve as a rear guard to the city.
The area, river, and fort all share the name ‘matanzas,’ Spanish for slaughter, for a rather gruesome series of incidents that took place in the area in 1565.
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