About the community:
The Preserve at Wildwood is a small, private community of 37 homes. We strive to have a neighborhood that boasts safety and good neighborly values. It is located across from Treaty Park and has easy access to all areas of St. Augustine and Interstate 95.
Founded in 1565, St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement of European and African-American origin in the United States. Forty-two years before the English colonized Jamestown and fifty-five years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the Spanish established at St. Augustine this nation's first enduring settlement
Treaty Park is a 47-acre complex that is home to Paws Dog Park and Robert Laryn Skate Park . Treaty Park offers active and passive recreation amenities to citizens of all ages. For the softball enthusiast, four lighted 300' softball fields and adult leagues are available for all levels of play. Two multi-purpose fields are available for soccer; kite flying, ultimate Frisbee, pick-up flag football games or any other activity that requires an open field. For the "court" enthusiast, there are six lighted tennis courts, eight lighted paddle tennis courts, eight pickleball courts, four racquetball courts, two bocce ball courts and two lighted basketball courts. A bicycle path, short of 7/8 of a mile, and jogging/walking trail surrounds the park. A handicap-accessible playground, horseshoe courts, picnic pavilion, charcoal grills, picnic tables and benches encompass a 3-acre lake with nature trails. The lake also features a boardwalk from which you can catch-and-release fish only (no cast nets permitted).
Every day, thousands of people cross a nondescript bridge on U.S. 1 south of St. Augustine over Moultrie Creek. But not many know the rich history of the creek that runs west into the Intracoastal Waterway. The creek, named after Gen. John Moultrie, the English governor of Florida in 1777, is the site of statewide historical events and was once a thriving community.
Treaty of Moultrie Creek:
On Sept. 18, 1823, two years after Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States, territorial Gov. William Duval and government representative James Gadsden met with the Seminole tribe leaders on the banks of the creek to sign a peace treaty ending the First Seminole War.
The document, called the Treaty of Moultrie Creek, relocated the Seminole to a 4 million-acre reservation in central Florida in exchange for them giving up claims to all other lands in the state.
St. Johns County's Treaty Park, on Wildwood Drive, commemorates the signing and is near the event's location.