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Tovar
House
Location
of sign - St. Francis Street in St. Augustine Florida.
Photo
taken- December 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Tovar
House
The
infantryman Jose Tovar lived on this corner in 1763. The original
site and size of his house remained unchanged during the
British
period, when John Johnson, a Scottish merchant, lived here. After
the Spanish returned in 1784, Jose Coruna, a Canary
Islander
with his family, and Tomas Caraballo, and assistant surgeon,
occupied the house. Geronimo Alvarez, who lived next door
in
the Gonzaliz-Alvarez House, purchased the property in 1791. It
remained in his family until 1871. A later occupant was Civil
War
General Martin D. Hardin, USA. The Tovar House has been owned by the
St. Augustine Historical Society since 1918.
Sponsored
by The St. Johns County Historical Commission In Cooperation With
the Department of State
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