The
St. Augustine Foundation Center
for Historic Research at Flagler
College was founded by Mr.
Lawrence Lewis, Jr., and has
been located at the College
since 1987. It holds a variety
of primary and secondary historical
materials, gathered since 1974
to facilitate the study of
the history of Spanish colonial
Florida.
The Center holds
more than 950
reels of primary
documents on
microfilm from
Spanish or Spanish-American
archives. It
possesses a large
number of monographic
works by historians,
archaeologists,
or geographers
and has a file
of papers, reviews
and presentations
by Eugene Lyon.
It has a collection
of books, monographs
and other files
about Christopher
Columbus, and
more than 800
books on other
topics, generally
related to Florida,
Spanish-American,
Spanish, other
European and
United States
history. Included
in its book collection
are etymological
dictionaries
of the Spanish
language and
works on Spanish
paleography.
Specialized
microfilmed collections include
the complete
Archives of the
Counts of Revillagigedo
(Madrid), representing
the family of
Pedro Menéndez
de Avilés
and his descendants,
as well as other
families from
the north of
Spain. The archives
contains more
than 900,000
pages of documents
dating from the
10th to the 20th
centuries, including
the private and
governmental
papers of two
18th century
New Spain viceroys.
Also, the Center
has microfilmed
the parish records
of the congregation
of the Spanish
exiles from Florida
who had established
a new St. Augustine
in Matanzas Province
in Cuba. It holds
materials from
the Archives
of the Indies
in Seville, the
Archives of Simancas,
and the Archives
of the Institute
of Valencia de
Don Juan and
the National
Historical Archives
in Madrid.
Many of the microfilmed
archival documents
at the Center
for Historic
Research have
been translated
and entered into
a database on
AREV software,
the size of which
is now 14.5 million
bytes. This database
holds 3,814 documents,
4,978 biographical
files and 3,230
culture files.
The Center aided
in the acquisition
of the McAllister
and Samuel Proctor
book collections
of works on Latin
American and
Florida history
and is presently
involved in the
acquisition of
the Stetson Collection,
the Spanish document
collection from
the Archives
of the Indies
in Spain.
The Center is
located at 97 St. George Street, 2nd Floor,
St. Augustine,
and its mail
should be sent
to:
P.O. Box 1027
St. Augustine, FL 32085
Phone: (904) 829-8481
Fax: (904) 829-3480
Email
address: staugustinefound@bellsouth.net.
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