Mr. Bill Adams

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  Bill Adams, city heritage tourism director, has said there were originally seven fountains built during the Flagler era, but two were torn down decades ago for new developments.

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  "We speak English and we're reared in ... English historical traditions, which have tended to depreciate what the Spanish have contributed to history," said Bill Adams, the city's director of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism.Historians have tended to "write the Spanish out of their history books or diminish their contributions.So Americans have inherited that."
  
  But Adams predicted St. Augustine's contribution to American history will get more notice with the growing Hispanic population of this country and the city's upcoming 450th anniversary in 2015.
  
  "I don't know how long it will take before the Spanish people realize that St. Augustine is their Williamsburg or their Jamestown," Adams said."St.

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  "We speak English and we're reared in ... English historical traditions, which have tended to depreciate what the Spanish have contributed to history," said Bill Adams, the city's director of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism.Historians have tended "write the Spanish out of their history books or diminish their contributions.So Americans have inherited that."
  
  Adams says St. Augustine is also to blame for why it gets no respect compared to Jamestown and Plymouth, Mass., where the Pilgrims settled in 1620.
  
  "It hasn't advertised itself very well.It hasn't gotten any press," Adams said.
  
  But, he said, St. Augustine's contribution to American history should be celebrated and believes it will get more notice with the growing Hispanic population of this country and the upcoming 450th anniversary in 2015.The king and queen of Spain, who visited in 2001, will be invited back.
  
  "I don't know how long it will take before the Spanish people realize that St. Augustine is their Williamsburg or their Plymouth or their Jamestown," Adams said."St.
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  They came here to set up a military base that would prevent their enemies from establishing a position from which they could menace the treasure ships of Spain off the coast," Adams said.
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  Adams said.

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  "We speak English and we're reared in ... English historical traditions, which have tended to depreciate what the Spanish have contributed to history," said Bill Adams, the city's director of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism.Historians have tended "write the Spanish out of their history books or diminish their contributions.So Americans have inherited that."
  
  Adams says St. Augustine is also to blame for why it gets no respect compared to Jamestown and Plymouth, Mass., where the Pilgrims settled in 1620.
  
  "It hasn't advertised itself very well.It hasn't gotten any press," Adams said.
  
  But, he said, St. Augustine's contribution to American history should be celebrated and believes it will get more notice with the growing Hispanic population of this country and the upcoming 450th anniversary in 2015.The king and queen of Spain, who visited in 2001, will be invited back.
  
  "I don't know how long it will take before the Spanish people realize that St. Augustine is their Williamsburg or their Plymouth or their Jamestown," Adams said."St.
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  They came here to set up a military base that would prevent their enemies from establishing a position from which they could menace the treasure ships of Spain off the coast," Adams said.
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  Adams said.
  
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  Dr. Bill Adams, retiring director of the city's Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism, said the university has never said how much it would cost to pay its staff members here.
  
  "If UF plans to take over these properties, the first thing it needs to do is create a direct support organization," Adams said.

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  "We speak English and we're reared in ... English historical traditions, which have tended to depreciate what the Spanish have contributed to history," said Bill Adams, the city's director of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism.
  
  Historians have tended to "write the Spanish out of their history books or diminish their contributions.So Americans have inherited that."
  
  Adams said St. Augustine's contribution to American history should be celebrated and believes it will get more notice with the growing Latino population of this country and the city's upcoming 450th anniversary in 2015.
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  Said Adams: "They didn't come here to settle Florida.

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  Bill Adams, director of the city's Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism, said this is an "old problem."
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  "But (the colonial requirement) didn't deal with the fact that the vast majority of buildings in St. Augustine were built post-1821 and in fact post-1900," Adams said.

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  Presenting the awards were McCain Foods (Canada) President and CEO Arnold Park, Vice President Operations Bill Adams, Vice President Production Rod MacDonald, Western Manufacturing Manager David Good, Plant Manager Bill Meisner and Field Department Manager Don Rioux.

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  "We speak English and we're reared in . . . English historical traditions, which have tended to depreciate what the Spanish have contributed to history," said William Adams, the city's director of Historic Preservation and Heritage Tourism.Historians have tended to "write the Spanish out of their history books or diminish their contributions.So Americans have inherited that." But, he said, St. Augustine's contribution to American history should be celebrated, and he believes it will get more notice with the growing Hispanic population of this country and the upcoming 450th anniversary in 2015. "St. Augustine is not only the birthplace of European culture and settlement in the United States, but of Spanish culture" in North America, he said.
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  They came here to set up a military base that would prevent their enemies from establishing a position from which they could menace the treasure ships of Spain off the coast," Adams said.

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  and making responsible choices," said Bill Adams, Acting Vice-President,

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