St John Land Co history

In July 1825, he was ordered by Secretary of War James Barbour to allow Sheriff Streeter to hold prisoners there, Marshal Smith apparently ignored Barbour’s orders.

Waters Smith, Sheriff – 1827 – until ?

Jose Simeon Sanchez was sheriff from ? until 1847.

Michael Usina, Sheriff – 1848.

The 1850 census shows Raphael Canova, 29, as Sheriff and Tax Collector who owned real estate valued at $300.

Like many of St Johns County’s young men, Gould rallied to the cause of the Confederacy and was mustered into the 3rd Florida Infantry, “St Augustine Blues,” in August 1861.

St Augustine was thus one of the few places in the United States where Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1862, actually freed any slaves.

He owned a railroad company that in 1886 linked St Augustine by rail with the populous cities of the east coast.

In 1887, his company began construction of two large and ornate hotels and a year later added a third that had been planned and begun by another developer.

He died in office on February 7, 1919, at the age of 56.

On May 7, 1933, Deputy Lamar Knight and Deputy Frank Quigley were shot and killed.

In 1952, a new jail was completed, and Sheriff Davis moved his headquarters from the old jail on McWilliams Street to the new jail on Lewis Speedway.

In 1964, St Augustine played a role in America’s civil rights struggle when Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. led a local campaign to dramatize national efforts designed to secure Congressional approval of what became the landmark Civil Rights Act of that year.

The city celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1965 and undertook in cooperation with the State of Florida a program to restore parts of the colonial city.

In 1970, then Governor Claude Kirk removed Sheriff Davis from office based on allegations made by several individuals.

The first of Henry Flagler's three great hotels, the Ponce de Leon, was adapted for use as an institution of higher learning in 1971.

Sheriff Shoar began his law enforcement career as a police officer with the St Augustine Police Department in December 1981.

With vision and forethought, Sheriff Perry diligently and conscientiously led the Sheriff’s Office through a series of improvements to the crowning achievement of attaining nationally accredited status in 1991.

He became the Administrative Services Commander in 1999.