🗺️ In 1589 Italian cartographer (mapmaker), Giovanni Battista Boazio published his map of the raid of Sir Francis Drake on St. Augustine three years earlier. The map is the first documented archival reference of a wooden watchtower at the end of Anastasia Island. The watchtowers were erected by the Spanish crown during the building of the Castillo De San Marcos to keep enemy ships from taking Anastasia Island. The watchtower at the north end of the island eventually became the St. Augustine Lighthouse, and the one at the sound end became Fort Matanzas National Monument. From the Florida Historical Society: 5/29 Today in Florida History from the Florida Historical Society! 1586 – Sir Francis Drake and over 1,000 men left St. Augustine, after burning the settlement to the ground, on this date. The raid was part of a much larger Anglo-Spanish War that which spilled over into the new world. Although the city was destroyed and many of their supplies had been plundered by Drake’s fo...