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St. Marks first appeared in the 1850 U.S. census with a total population of 189.<ref>{{Cite web|title=1850 Census of Population: Florida|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1850/1850a/1850a-32.pdf|access-date=2023-02-24}}</ref>
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Today's St. Marks evidently has its roots in American commercial activity that took hold beneath the walls of the fort upon acquisition of [[Spanish Florida]] by the U.S. in 1821—before the settlement moved slightly up the [[St. Marks River]] to the present position. Various articles in publications like ''Florida Historical Quarterly'' relate how the fort site later held a government "naval" hospital to meet [[yellow fever]] emergencies in the [[merchant marine]].{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} And just afterward Confederate batteries were established on the site in the Civil War. Their earthworks remain and are interpreted in the historic state park. But the site also exhibits old Spanish stonework, and not far away (though inaccessible), just down [[St. Marks River]] are shallow Spanish quarries where this [[limestone]] was evidently obtained in the 1730s.
Limestone quarried here by the Spanish helped to make the [[St. Marks Light]] lighthouse, constructed about 1830 by the U.S. government{{
<blockquote>St. Marks was a seaport for all of Middle Florida and lower Georgia during this early period. [[Ellen Call Long]], on her way to Tallahassee, described the port about 1830 as "a quaint little village, amphibious-like, consisting of a few dwelling houses, stores, etc., mostly built on stilts or piles, as if ready to launch when wind or tide prevailed."<ref>{{cite book
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