{"nrhp_refnum":"66000065","name":"Fort Frederica National Monument (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"12 mi. north of Brunswick","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brunswick","county":"Glynn County","state":"GA","lat":31.223117,"lon":-81.389282,"geom_source":"wikidata"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Frederica National Monument is a historic district on St. Simons Island near Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. It includes the remains of the 1736 fortified colonial town and fort of Frederica, plus the separate Bloody Marsh Battle Site about five miles southeast.","why_significant":"The form describes Frederica as the most strategically important early settlement in Georgia, the hub of the colony's defense against the Spanish. In 1742 it was headquarters of the forces that turned back a Spanish invasion, and the Battle of Bloody Marsh was a major factor in halting the attempt to destroy Georgia and South Carolina. It was also a planned community tied to the Wesley brothers and to James Oglethorpe's humanitarian aims.","narrative":"Fort Frederica National Monument preserves the remains of a fortified British colonial town founded in 1736 on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Most surviving features are tabby or brick foundations of houses, storehouses, a barracks, the King's Magazine, a burial ground, and earthen works including the town moat. The district also includes the Bloody Marsh Battle Site, a wooded and marshy eight-acre tract where British defenders stopped a Spanish advance in July 1742. Frederica served as the headquarters of Oglethorpe's regiment and the center of the colony's defense against Spain during the War of Jenkins' Ear. At its peak the town held about 1,500 people, including skilled tradesmen, and John and Charles Wesley preached there. The town declined after the regiment disbanded in 1749, a fire in 1758 destroyed most buildings, and the last soldiers left in 1763. The National Park Service now maintains the site.","period_of_significance":"18th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Publicly owned and preserved by the National Park Service as a national monument with unrestricted public access; the structures are largely foundations, ruins and earthworks. Condition is marked as unaltered, original site and ruins.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:39.971668-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/66000065.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000065/e5720d746f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000065/e5720d746f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Bubba73 (talk), Jud McCranie","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortFredBackside.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubba73 (talk), Jud McCranie</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FortFredBackside.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Frederica_National_Monument","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/glynn-county/fort-frederica-national-monument-additional-documentation-66000065/"}