Bridge of Lions - Faithful

Connecting downtown to Anastasia Island and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Bridge of Lions was built in the mid-1920s as a way for automobiles to travel from St. Augustine on the mainland to Anastasia Island, where significant development was just getting underway. Developer D.P. Davis planned to use the same dredging techniques he'd used for his Davis Islands project in Tampa to drain the marshy swamp at the north end of Anastasia Island and develop a residential ar...

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