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Saint Augustine, FL is the county seat of Saint Johns County which is located in northeastern Florida on the Matanzas and San Sebastian rivers, near the Atlantic Ocean. St. Augustine was incorporated 1824. St. Augustine is a port, a commercial and distribution center for the surrounding agricultural region, and a popular year-round resort. Major manufactures include transportation equipment, clothing, and processed food. A National Guard station is here, and a Coast Guard Station is nearby. Points of interest in the picturesque city include the Castillo de San Marcos, the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States, and Fort Matanzas, both now part of separate national monuments; the Cathedral of Saint Augustine, erected in the 1790s; San Agustin Antiguo, a reconstruction of several colonial buildings; the Lightner Museum, containing displays of 19th-century decorative arts; and the Fountain of Youth, a park commemorating the landing here of the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513. The city is also the site of Flagler College.

St. Augustine, established in 1565 by the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, is the oldest permanent European settlement in the U.S. The community was burned and sacked by the English navigator Sir Francis Drake in 1586. In 1821 the Spanish ceded St. Augustine to the United States. During the American Civil War, the city was captured by Union forces in 1862. In the late 19th century St. Augustine was developed as a resort by the financier Henry M. Flagler.