The Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

Day: April 14, 2020

  • The Asiatic Cholera Pandemic

    The Asiatic Cholera Pandemic

    April 13, 2020 This latest pandemic is not the first time that St. Augustine has experienced a quarantine. On October 1834, when Dr. Seth Peck, his wife Sarah, and their children Mary, Rebecca, John, Lucy, and baby Sarah arrived in St. Augustine, they were not allowed to disembark. The schooner Topic, which brought them from…