Barden, the Ranger, or, The Flower of the Uchees: A Tale of Georgia in Early Times." Beadle's New Dime Novels, New Series, no. 122; Old Series, no. 443.]]> Historical
Race Relations
Romance]]>
**Warning: Some readers may find certain scenes in this book disturbing.**

Two years after Oglethorpe attacks St. Augustine, one of his men, Andy Barden, who is a friend to some of the Uchee Indians of Georgia, works to keep them loyal and not ally themselves with the Spanish like the Yemassee. He is also a messenger between the young lovers, Richard Musgrove and Anote/Wood Lily. Meanwhile, Anote is caught in a love triangle with a Uchee who believes an alliance with the Spanish is in the tribes' best interest. Will true love prevail, or will Anote's story end in sadness? And what of Richard's sister, Katie, who is desired by the Spaniard, Costello?

James Oglethorpe is a character in this story. Near the end of the tale is the Battle of Bloody Marsh, GA, July 7, 1742.

Local locations visited or mentioned in the text include Fort Mose, the Castillo de San Marcos, and the Matanzas Inlet.]]> W. J. Hamilton]]> July 22, 1879]]> Northern Illinois University.]]> Barden, the Ranger, or, The Flower of the Uchees: A Tale of Georgia in Early Times." Beadle's New Dime Novels, New Series, no. 122; Old Series, no. 443, July 22, 1879.]]> Young adults to adults]]> Frank Merriwell's Life Struggle, or, A Bluff That Did Not Work." Tip Top Weekly, no. 252.]]> Dime Novel or Graphic Novel
Mystery or Thriller]]>
Elsie Bellwood is staying at the Hotel Ponce de Leon when she is approached by a mysterious, handsome stranger with a thick Spanish accent who frightens her though claiming to offer his gentlemanly services. When one of her male friends she is travelling with becomes aware of the situation, a stand-off is inevitable even though dueling has long been illegal in the United States. What will happen to Elsie in this melodrama, and who will prove her greatest protector?

Other notable local locations visited include the Cathedral Basilica, the old slave market, the Spanish Quarter (Colonial Quarter), Matanzas River, Anastasia Island and the St. Augustine Lighthouse, Alcazar Hotel, Castillo de San Marcos (including the golf course), the seawall, and the Old City Gates.]]> Burt L. Standish ]]> February 9, 1901]]> Northern Illinois University.]]> An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. St. Petersburg, FL: Little Bayou Press, 1983.]]> Frank Merriwell's life struggle, or, A bluff that did not work." Tip Top Weekly, no. 252, February 9, 1901.]]> High school]]>
During the British Period (1763-1783), this street was named George Street after King George III. On a 1764 map by Don Juan Josef Elixio de al Puente to record Spanish property in the different blocks of the town, St. George Street is a prominant, unnamed, feature running from the northern (surviving) City Gates to what is today called St. Francis Street.

After the reinsitution of Spanish rule in 1783, the street was translated to Calle Jorge. By the 1793 census, streets had stanardized names and Calle Jorge had become Calle de San Jorge. It is not conclusive why the "San" (Saint) was added at this time.

Once St. Augustine became part of the Florida Territory, the street name was translated to St. George Street in the early 1830s.

In 1958, the route of St. Augustine's first Easter Parade was down St. George Street. In the 1960s, in an attempt to restore Colonial St. Augustine, St. George Street was altered for imitation colonial buildings that would feature tourist-y shops. In the mid- to late-1970s, the northern part of St. George Street became pedestrian-only. The southern part remains residential and a vehicular road. There are many historically preserved locations along St. George Street that are both homes, businesses, and restaurants. The pedestrain-only portion of St. George Street is one the most acclaimed locations to visit for visitors and locals alike.]]> The Spanish]]>
Photograph 1 (c.1897): Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the Gilded Age. Acadia Publishing, 2008.

Photograph 2 (2023): Augusty, Jean-Marc. "Picture of St. George Street." March 11, 2023.

Photograph 3 (c.1900): Bowen, Beth Rogero, and the St. Augustine Historical Society. St. Augustine in the Gilded Age. Acadia Publishing, 2008.

Photograph 4 (c. 1970): Van Campen, J.T. St. Augustine: Florida’ Colonial Capital. 3^rd printing. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1971.

Photograph 5 (2023): Augusty, Jean-Marc. "Picture of Buildings on St. George Street." March 11, 2023.

The following books, articles, and/or websites were used to find information about this location:

GovernorsHouseLibrary. “What’s in a Name? St. George Street.” Governor’s House Library: Explore St. Augustine’s History. November 9, 2017. https://governorshouselibrary.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/govhouselibrary-st-george-street/#:~:text=The%20British%20were%20the%20first,reigning%20monarch%2C%20King%20George%20III.

Harvey, Karen. St. Augustine and St. Johns County: A Pictorial History. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company, 1980.

Nolan, David. The Houses of St. Augustine. Pineapple Press, 1995.

]]> Bull and Crown Publick House is on St. George Street.]]> The Bunnery used to be on St. George Street.]]> The Cathedral Basilica is on the corner of Cathedral Place and St. George Street.]]> The Casa del Hidalgo is on the corner of Hypolita and St. George streets.]]> The Casa Monica is located on the corner of Cordova and King streets.]]> Colonial Quarter St. Augustine is on St. George Street.]]> Cuna Street intersects St. George Street.]]> Florida Cracker Cafe is on St. George Street.]]> The Governor's House is on the corner of St. George and King streets.]]> Lake Maria Sanchez borders St. George Street.]]> The Magnolia Hotel used to be on the corner of St. George and Hypolita streets.]]> Milltop Tavern is on St. George Street.]]> The Old City Gates are now the northern terminus of St. George Street but would have continued onto Shell Road during the Colonial Period.]]> The Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse is on St. George Street.]]> Orange Street intersects St. George Street.]]> The Peña-Peck House is on the corner of Treasury and St. George streets.]]> The Plaza de la Constitucion borders St. George Street.]]> Savannah Sweets is on St. George Street.]]> The Spanish Bakery is on St. George Street.]]> The St. Francis Inn is on the corner of St. Francis and St. George streets.]]> The St. George Tavern is on St. George Street.]]> St. Joseph's Convent is on St. George Street.]]> The Taberna de Gallo is on St. George Street.]]> Trinity Episcopal Church is on the corner of King and St. George streets.]]>
After Dark
Breed
Body Shop
The Bones of the Holy
The Butterfly Game
Chasing Shadows
Deadly Listings
Down South
The Eagle and the Rose
First Discoveries
A Florida Enchantment
Florida Is Closed Today
A Golden Sorrow
Grandmother in Cellophane
Gullible's Travels
I'll Be Home for Peacemas
In a Dark Garden
La Vida Vampire
Last Vampire Standing
Love and Honors
Love Insurance
Matanzas Moon
Matanzas Moon Ablaze
The Minorcan Quarter
The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms
Mystery of the Missing Candlestick
One Happy Winter
One Summer in the Old Town
Pablo's Search
Papa and the Gingerbread Man
The Picolata Road
The Reaper of St. George Street
Redfish Oak
The Relic
River in the Wind
Rosie, the Oldest Horse in St. Augustine
The Seminole Trail
Slingshot
Stepping Off a Cliff
Sugar Cage
Tales from the Oldest City
There Were Two Pirates
Three Vassar Girls at Home
Yella Gal: Queen of the Montclair
The Vessel Tinaja
White Moccasins
Wicked Rich]]> Fireside Library of Popular Reading, vol. 1, no. 2.

"Fleeing from Love." Waverley Library 6, no. 142.]]> Mystery or Thriller
Race Relations]]>
This story follows two women from differing backgrounds. One woman, Jude, was born and raised in St. Augustine, working on the plantation of a wealthy businessman, whose son has eyes for her. The other is the younger Ethel Raymond, born into wealth, who spent her first years in St. Augustine, the ancestral home of her Spanish father's people and her Greek mother's people. When Ethel returns to the city, the two women meet again and discover the long-buried connection they share, while assisting each other to find true love.

No identifiable location in St. Augustine is mentioned. Jude lived on a plantation near St. Augustine that had been in a Spanish family since the 17th century.]]> Mrs. Harriet Irving]]> April 24, 1877
August 1, 1882]]> Northern Illinois University.
1882 version is available for free from Northern Illinois University.]]> Fireside Library of Popular Reading 1, no. 2, April 24, 1877.

Irving, Mrs. Harriet. "Fleeing from Love." Waverley Library 6, no. 142, August 1, 1882.]]> Adults]]> Short stories, vignettes or poetry
Youth]]> Osceola's Head and Other American Ghost stories by Walter Harter is a collection of eerie stories involving ghost sightings in the United States. One particular story involves the Castillo de San Marcos and the ghost of a chief of the Seminole tribe, Osceola. While the stories are not disturbingly scary, they are not completely innocent either as they are based on the history of the land.]]> Walter Harter]]> 1974]]> Internet Archive.]]> Gardner, Janette C. An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. Little Bayou Press, 1983.

McCarthy, Kevin. M. “Historical St. Augustine in Fiction.” El Escribano 15 (1978): 61-69.

]]> Osceola's Head and Other American Ghost Stories. Prentice-Hall, 1974.]]> Young adults to adults]]>
During the British occupation of St. Augustine, the owner, William Wilson, built a small outbuilding on the property. When St. Augustine was once again ruled by the Spanish, the home was owned by the Spanish Indian Commissioner, Luciano de Herrera starting in 1785 who had remained in St. Augustine through much of the British Period "serving" the British while spying for the Spanish. He died shortly after renting the house to Eduardo Esten, a tailor in St. Augustine in 1788. The Herrera family sold the house to Capitan Miguel Ysnardy in 1789, the naval officer who also designed the Cathedral Basilica. The house was sold in 1792 to a free black man, Pedro de Cala. Jose Lorente bought the house in 1797 and made extensive improvements. In 1803, Don Garbriel Guillermo took over ownership of the house.

The house was either heavily converted or demolished and replaced by Neil Pop's Garage in the mid-1900s. When St. Augustine was revitalized back to its Spanish roots in the 1960s, the garage was torn down and replaced by the Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board in 1966 with a reconstruction of the 18th Century Luciano de Herrera House. It was planned that as Charlotte Street had been the street of merchants under the Spanish, this would be resumed in the reconstructed buildings so a ten-year lease was agreed upon with the Southern Bell Telophone Company.

The house was used as offices for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company before it became La Pentola Restaurant. The fine dining restaurant, owned by Susan and Jorge Talvera, closed in January 2018. This building is currently unoccupied and undergoing some restoration work.]]> Juan de Muros]]> The following books, articles, websites, and photographers were used to find the above photographs or illustrations:

Photograph 1 (pre 1966): San Agustin Antiguo: The Restoration of Old St. Augustine, 1960-66. St. Augustine Historical, Restoration and Preservation Commission and St. Augustine Restoration, Inc., [1967].

Photograph 2 (1971): Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board. Guide Book, Including Descriptions of the Buildings, Crafts, and a Brief History of the Restoration of the Nation’s Oldest City. [Tallahassee, FL]: Department of State, 1971.

Photograph 3 (2025): Zufelt, Holly. "Luciano de Herrera House." December 16, 2025.

The following books, articles, and/or websites were used to find information about this location:

Gordon, Elsbeth “Buff.” Walking St. Augustine: An Illustrated Guide and Pocket History to America’s Oldest City. Univ. of Florida Press, 2015.

Governorshouselibrary. “Property Spotlight: Herrara House.” UFHSA Governor’s House Library: Exploring St. Augustine’s History. September 17, 2019. https://governorshouselibrary.wordpress.com/2019/09/17/property-spotlight-herrera-house/.

Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board. Guide Book, Including Descriptions of the Buildings, Crafts, and a Brief History of the Restoration of the Nation’s Oldest City. [Tallahassee, FL]: Department of State, 1971.

Rajtar, Steve, and Kelly Goodman. A Guide to Historic St. Augustine, Florida. 1^st edition. The History Press, 2007.

San Agustin Antiguo: The Restoration of Old St. Augustine, 1960-66. St. Augustine Historical, Restoration and Preservation Commission and St. Augustine Restoration, Inc., [1967].

Visit St. Augustine. “La Pentola – Closed.” https://www.visitstaugustine.com/restaurant/la-pentola-restaurant.

Waterbury, Jean Parker, ed. The Oldest City: St. Augustine, Saga of Survival. St. Augustine, FL: St. Augustine Historical Society, 1983.]]> Charlotte Street.]]>
Maria]]> St. Augustine, FL 32084]]> Patchwork: The Poems and Prose Sketches of . . . Maley Bainbridge Crist]]> Short stories, Vignettes, or Poetry]]> Hotel Ponce de Leon with his fiancée, George Allen Van Zant, from the Bluegrass region of Kentucky meets and befriends a young girl, Petronilla Pedro, who develops a crush on the older man. She has a great love of music and he pays for her to receive lessons. He leaves after his vacation and she grows up. After Petronilla becomes a woman and a famed travelling soprano, she goes in search of the man who was kind to her.

Other notable local locations visited include the Cathedral Basilica, the seawall, and the Castillo de San Marcos.]]> Maley Crist]]> 1898]]> HathiTrust.
Available for free on Internet Archive.]]> Gardner, Janette C. An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. Little Bayou Press, 1983.

McCarthy, Kevin. M. “Historical St. Augustine in Fiction.” El Escribano 15 (1978): 61-69.

]]> Patchwork: The Poems of Prose Sketches of. . . Maley Bainbridge Crist. Atlanta: The Martin & Hoyt Co., 1898.]]> Adults]]> Beadle's Half Dime Library, vol. XV, no. 383.]]> Beadle's Pocket Library, vol. XXVII, no. 347.]]> Romance
Dime Novel or Comic Book]]>
The author did not know the geography of St. Augustine and used a location in Green Cove Springs as the main geographic point for the story. Based on descriptions, he was probably thinking of the portion of Anastasia Island now known as Davis Shores. This story was reprinted in 1890.]]> Col. Prentiss Ingraham]]> November 25, 1884
September 3, 1890]]> Northern Illinois University.
1890 version is available for free from Northern Illinois University.]]> An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. Little Bayou Press, 1983.]]> Beadle's Half Dime Library 15, no. 383, November 25, 1884.

Ingraham, Prentiss. "Middy Herbert's Prize, or, The Girl Captain's Revenge." Beadle's Pocket Library 27, no. 347, September 3, 1890.]]> Young adults to adults]]> Beadle's Dime Novels, no. 208.

"The Ocean Outlaw; or, The Stolen Sister." Beadle's New Dime Novels, New Series no. 71; Old Series no. 392.]]> Dime Novel or Comic Book
Historical]]>
During the Second Spanish Period of St. Augustine's history, Ralph Gray, a hearty sea-captain, has come to idyllic St. Augustine to provide his family a serene place to settle down. As time passes though, will the family be able to maintain the peace they sought all along? Or will the past send them to places they never expected?

Identifiable local locations are missing, but the author portrays St. Augustine as being right on the ocean.]]> J.R. Caldwell]]> July 19, 1870
August 7, 1877]]> Northern Illinois University.
1877 version is available for free from Northern Illinois University.]]> Gardner, Janette C. An Annotated Bibliography of Florida Fiction, 1801-1980. Little Bayou Press, 1983.

McCarthy, Kevin. M. “Historical St. Augustine in Fiction.” El Escribano 15 (1978): 61-69.
]]> Beadle's Dime Novels, no. 208, July 19, 1870.

Caldwell, J.R. "The Ocean Outlaw; or, The Stolen Sister." Beadle's New Dime Novels, New Series no. 71; Old Series no. 392, August 7, 1877.]]> Young adults to adults]]> Beadle's Frontier Series, no. 76.]]> Historical
Race Relations
Romance]]>
Don Leon de Sandoval and his daughter Donna Clara leave St. Augustine to go to his plantation on the St. Johns near the Mission of Los Angeles (possibly Salamototo near present-day Picolata), but are waylaid by a couple of Natives and pursued by Don Pablo, Clara's lover. Don Pablo has mercy on one of the Natives hung by Don Sandoval's party by cutting him down before he dies, and by going to his chief, Turkey-Foot, vengeance against Don Sandoval is put into motion.

Local locations visited or mentioned in the text include the Castillo de San Marcos, Matanzas Bay, Anastasia Island, the Cathedral Basilica, and the St. Johns River.]]> Captain Latham C. Carleton]]> 1909]]> Villanova University.]]> Beadle's Frontier Series, no. 76, 1909.]]> Young adults to adults]]>