Overview
This coastal route tells the story of how Britain tried to secure its southern mainland frontier against Spanish Florida. Fort King George at Darien represents the earlier imperial outpost, while Fort Frederica National Monument preserves the town and fort James Oglethorpe established on St. Simons Island. Nearby Bloody Marsh shows the landscape of the 1742 fighting that helped end Spain's immediate threat to British Georgia, and Horton House adds the domestic and agricultural world of William Horton, an Oglethorpe officer closely connected to Frederica. Day two carries the story north toward the Revolutionary generation. Fort Morris guarded the Medway River and the port of Sunbury during the American Revolution, while Wormsloe preserves the estate landscape of founding colonist Noble Jones and one of the oldest surviving structures associated with colonial Savannah. The route connects military strategy, settlement, plantation society, and the shift from imperial borderland to revolutionary Georgia.
