John Wesley Landing Site
(upper inscription):
John Wesley
landed in America
on this island.
February 6, 1736
(lower inscription):
From
the Journal of John Wesley
"Fri,6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It was a small uninhabited island,... over against Tybee, called by the English Peeper Island. Mr. Oglethrope led us through the moorish land on the shore to a rising ground,... we chose an open place surrounded with Myrtles, Bays, and Cedars, which sheltered us both from sun and wind, and called our little flock together to prayers."
(inscription on base):
Erected in 1950 by
The Georgia Society of Colonial Dames
To Commemorate
John Wesley's Association with the Colony of Georgia
Courtesy hmdb.org
