Nation’s Oldest Documents Get New Display In St. Augustine, Florida, USA

It’s only fitting that the nation’s oldest city would be home to the nation’s oldest documents.

To make sure those documents have their proper place in history, the Diocese of St. Augustine, Florida, USA, is dedicating a new archives center.

According to the Diocese, the center holds the oldest European documents of North American origin (north of Mexico) that still exist, dating back to 1594.

The collection includes the original versions of the parish registers of St. Augustine, the Book of the Minorcans, and papers from the nine bishops of St. Augustine.

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