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Photo: Bubba73 (Jud McCranie), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The oldest British fort on the Georgia coastline, dating to 1721, as a deterrence to Spanish and American Indian attacks. It was subsequently abandoned and then saw resettlement of the area nearby as the town of Darien when General James Oglethorpe brought a contingent along in 1736. Tours and trails and a museum on site.
Fort King George State Historic Site is a fort located in the U.S. state of Georgia in McIntosh County, adjacent to Darien. The fort was built in 1721 along what is now known as the Darien River and served as the southernmost outpost of the British Empire in the Americas until 1727. The fort was constructed in what was then considered part of the colony of South Carolina, but was later settled as the Georgia colony. It was part of a defensive line intended to encourage settlement along the colony's southern frontier, from the Savannah River to the Altamaha River. Britain, France, and Spain were competing to control the American Southeast, especially the Savannah-Altamaha River region.
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Here you can really get a sense of the marsh life at the mouth of the Altamaha River, with kayaking launches and wildlife viewing, and also find the Butler Island Plantation, where hundreds of slaves performed arduous work to cultivate rice and where now the estate looks something like a haunted house.
Relics of a rice plantation using slave labor from the early 1800s that became a dairy with heirlooms and paths through the marsh.
Coordinate ferry tours to Sapelo Island with its Hog Hammock Community, home of Gullah Geechees, an African American subtype of former slaves, Reynolds Mansion, and marshes and beaches, such as Nanny Goat or Blackbeard Beach.
Said to be the oak that inspired Sidney Lanier to write the poem "The Marshes of Glynn", while sitting under the branches.
1899 theater that is used by the Golden Isles Arts and Humanities Association to host performing arts productions and related events.
A plaque to commemorate the vast number of Liberty Ships produced in Brunswick during World War II to counter German forces. Sometimes there will be tall ships, cruise ships, etc moored to the landing here on Oglethorpe Bay.