Fort Frederica National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located on St. Simon's Island, Georgia . It preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort built by James Oglethorpe in 1736 to protect the southern boundary of the colony of Georgia from Spanish raids.
External links
http://www.nps.gov/fofr/index.htm - NPS web page for the site
Last updated: 08-21-2005 14:39:25