Where Was the First Mass Said In America?

The Answer is St Augustine Florida!!! ACCORDING TO SOME PEOPLE- MORE ON WHY THIS MAY NOT CORRECT BELOW- It appears that Father Londecker at Standing on My Head took eighth grade trip to St Augustine in Florida. He has a picture of the Cross that commemorates the event that occured way back in 1565!!!!.

He says in part:
The Spanish priest recorded the event in his diary. He came ashore flanked by the soldiers, with banners flying and trumpets playing. From the ships in the bay the cannons were firing a salute. Now that's what I call a Eucharistic procession. Perhaps we can convince Fr Newman to add a canon salute for special solemnities...
I'd never visited St Augustine before. What a delight! A little bit of the old world transplanted. The only thing I remember being taught in American history about the contribution of the Spanish is that Ponce de Leon was a bit of a fruitcake who was foolishly searching for the fountain of youth.

Much more here!!!

I know what he means!! He goes on with some other interesting observations.

Sadly one can go through American History and not get any serious idea of the Catholic influence. Father mentions California and needless to say there is much in Louisiana.

Much of this is a product of our English heritage. Even in Catholic historic Louisiana this can be seen. The whole Spanish is bad and devious influence we get from the English. The Spanish were quite involved in Louisiana and elsewhere but one gets the impression it was just the French!!! When you go to the French Quarter in New Orleans that is not French Architecture you are seeing.

Now was St Augustine the first place the in American the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered? I am highly doubtful. While it might have been the first Roman Catholic Mass to be celebrated in a permanent settlement of European origin in the United States we had Catholic Spanish explorers a few decades before this. It is highly likely they had priest with them. For instance Juan Ponce de Leon (1513) was in Florida . Plus around this time Spain was exploring Louisiana as well as other parts of the Southern Gulf Coast