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Fort Frederica National Monument

St. Simons Island, GA

Tabby ruins and street traces mark the fortified British town founded in the 1730s to defend Georgia against Spanish Florida. The remains spread under enormous live oaks, allowing visitors to walk the outline of a colonial settlement that largely vanished after its military purpose faded.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/fofr/

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