Off the northeast Atlantic coast of Florida, East of Saint Augustine, the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement in the continental United States, is located Anastasia Island, a barrier island long of 23km and wide of 1,6km. At the north end of the island is an active lighthouse, named as the city, the most recent of a number of towers built in the area. Saint Augustine was the site of the first lighthouse established in Florida by the new, territorial, American Government in 1824, on the site of an earlier watchtower built by the Spanish as early as the late 16th century. Because of the erosion and the changing coastline, the old tower crashed into the sea in 1880, but not before a new lighthouse was lit.
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