St. Augustine City Gates

The gate at the north end of St. George Street has stood since 1808, coquina rebuilt from an earlier wooden structure over a moat along what was called the Cubo Line. That fortification held in 1740 when Georgia Governor James Oglethorpe besieged the city and failed to break through. Nearly removed in 1827 to widen the road, it survived that too — stones taken from the pillars went unreplaced until the late 1870s. It remains the only surviving piece of St. Augustine's colonial defensive wall.