<P> Santa Elena , a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island , South Carolina , was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587 . It was established under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , the first governor of Spanish Florida . There had been a number of earlier attempts to establish colonies in the area by both the Spanish and the French , who had been inspired by earlier accounts of the plentiful land of Chicora . Menéndez 's Santa Elena settlement was intended as the new capital of the Spanish colony of La Florida , shifting the focus of Spanish colonial efforts north from St. Augustine , which had been established in 1565 to oust the French from their colony of Fort Caroline . Santa Elena was ultimately built at the site of the abandoned French outpost of Charlesfort , founded in 1562 by Jean Ribault . </P>
<P> Santa Elena , a Spanish settlement on what is now Parris Island , South Carolina , was the capital of Spanish Florida from 1566 to 1587 . It was established under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , the first governor of Spanish Florida . There had been a number of earlier attempts to establish colonies in the area by both the Spanish and the French , who had been inspired by earlier accounts of the plentiful land of Chicora . Menéndez 's Santa Elena settlement was intended as the new capital of the Spanish colony of La Florida , shifting the focus of Spanish colonial efforts north from St. Augustine , which had been established in 1565 to oust the French from their colony of Fort Caroline . Santa Elena was ultimately built at the site of the abandoned French outpost of Charlesfort , founded in 1562 by Jean Ribault . </P>
where was the spanish settlement santa elena located
where was the spanish settlement santa elena located
on what is now Parris Island , South Carolina
on what is now Parris Island , South Carolina