[1] Both of these men served in the mounted dragoons and lived near the Castillo de San Marcos.

[2] The Board (at that time called the St. Augustine Historical Restoration and Preservation Commission) won a condemnation suit to acquire the Smith boardinghouse (Gonzáles House) at 33 St. George Street for $17,500.

After two years of failing to negotiate a selling price for the Smith boardinghouse, the Commission decided to go to court, as a last resort.

[4] Archaeological digs led by Dr. Kathleen Deagan of Florida State University revealed the original foundations.

[6] Today the Gonzáles and De Hita Houses operate as the Taberna del Caballo,[7] a Spanish themed restaurant that is part of St. Augustine’s Colonial Quarter Museum.