Charlotte Street

Charlotte Street

1600s

c. 1702

1895

2017

Part of Charlotte Street was originally the cemetery for the Catholic parish church, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios.

Parts of Charlotte Street are original to St. Augustine, and parts have developed as a road over time.

The Spanish laid-out the street system of St. Augustine in the First Spanish Period. They did not give streets formal names, but rather referred to them based on an important building alongside the road or to where the road led. The original name for Charlotte Street in the 1st Spanish Period has not been located.

Nuestra Señora de los Remedios (Our Lady of Remedies) existed from Aviles Street to Avenida Menendez from c. 1572 to 1702, and a portion of current-day Charlotte Street south of King Street serving as the parish cemetery. The parish church was at this location until 1702, when it burned down in the British siege of that year. After that the Catholic Church was moved to its current location and urban sprawl and the need for extending Charlotte Street meant that the location of the cemetery was built over and forgotten until 2017 when workers, replacing 100-year-old utility lines, came across human remains. The graves of the first settlers of St. Augustine who were not impacted by the utility work were left in situ according to the wishes of the Catholic Church, but those who were impacted by the new utility lines were moved and reintered in consecreted ground per the rules for burials of Catholics. Those who remained received a special blessing in September 2017.

In c. 1700 with the first building of the seawall, the importance of Charlotte Street increased and was expanded. It became a street of merchants and shipping houses. In 1895, dredging and landfill to build a bridge in front of the Old Slave Market over to Anastasia Island increased the land around Charlotte Street again.

Charlotte Street, named after the wife of King George III, is located between Aviles Street and Marine Street. Charlotte Street has been recreated to look like old Spanish residences built of coquina, and featuring the city's famous second-story balconies. Most of the original buildings along this street had disappeared by the 1890s.

City of St. Augustine

The Luciano de Herrera House in on this street.

The Old Slave Market is on this street.

The St. Augustine Historical Society's Oldest House Museum Complex is on the corner of St. Francis Street and Charlotte Street.

The St. Augustine National Cemetery is located between Charlotte Street and Marine Street.

The Florida National Guard's St. Francis Barracks backs onto Charlotte Street.

Flagler College’s Rare Books, Floridiana & Institutional Repository are neither the original nor current copyright owner for the photographs. Please contact the publisher or source cited for each photograph to obtain a copy and/or permission to reproduce these items.

The following St. Augustine Fiction books feature this historic site as a location:

The Devil's Own Dear Son
Florida Is Closed Today
A Golden Sorrow
Grandmother in Cellophane
One Summer in the Old Town
Sugar Cage
Tales of St. Augustine

This record was last updated on June 18, 2025.