In the Jacksonville area, history and legends are so intermingled it's difficult to tell where one stops and the other begins. In Jacksonville, skyscrapers signal the progress of the twenty-first century while standing watch over French and Spanish fortresses of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that protected the country's earliest settlements. And a short way down the coast, Saint Augustine, the oldest city in the nation, offers a look at those early times. Later, this area's beach resorts were the first to draw winter visitors to the Sunshine State.