Frederica
" Frederica is situated on the Island of
St. Simons, in the middle of an Indian
field where our people found 30 or 40
acres cleared by them."
Francis Moore
1736
A Voyage to Georgia
The first british settlers landed here on
February 18, 1736-forty years before the
signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The town they established lay on the
southern frontier of the English colonies,
on land contested by Spain. James Oglethorpe,
respectfully known as "General," was their
leader.
Fearing invasion by land or by water,
Frederica's settlers built a fort on the riverbank,
and a palisaded [sic] wall and moat around the town.
When the war with Spain ended in 1748, the town
began to decline.
The ghost town you are about to enter was
once one of Georgia's finest settlements. Today
only ruins and eroded earthworks remain.
Marker can be reached from Frederica Dr..
Courtesy hmdb.org
