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Farmers brought crops and food from fields surrounding St. Augustine to this city gate, which was open for trade during the day but locked at night as the entrance to early 1800s civilization. In 1808, more than 100 years after the Castillo was completed, the Spanish built the gate when they reconstructed the city's northern wall, the Cubo Line. After wresting possession back from the British, the Spanish fortified the town to keep the Americans out, and the gate became a critical part of improvements to the city's fortified defense. Restored sections of the wall that once surrounded St. Augustine still stand on both sides of the gate.
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St. Augustine, Florida · United States
