Source: WTL© photographs on site at the Fountain of Youth in St. Augustine, Florida.
Image: Photo op display next to the ticket booth of the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park.
Comment and question: The private Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park covers 15 acres alongside the Intracoastal Waterway in St. Augustine. In the park there is an artesian well from which bubble the fresh waters more or less touted to be the source of water referred to by the Spanish historian Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (1549 - 1626) in his Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos en las Islas y Tierra Firme del mar Océano (written 1559 to 1574 and published in 1601). In the 1990s Dr. Kathleen Deagan worked the park's grounds where she discovered Indian remains and artifacts of the first Spanish settlement.

Since the last half of the 1860s there have been a number of attractions on these grounds the purpose of which was early Florida tourism. The first formal restoration of the site began in the 1930s, which then turned into the important Historic St. Augustine Preservation Board. In 2016, the park was listed on the National Regtister of Historic Places.