Old Spanish Garden - GHM 063-6
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N 31° 08.119 W 081° 23.422
17R E 462785 N 3444664
Site of an old Spanish Garden on Saint Simons Island.
Waymark Code: WM24ZQ
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 09/05/2007
Views: 31
The marker reads:
"Old Spanish Garden
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Spain maintained missions along this coast
for more than a century. Beginning in 1568
Jesuit and, later, Franciscan missionaries
labored to Christianize the Indians and
cultivated in the mission gardens figs,
peaches, oranges and other plants introduced
from Europe. Due to Indian uprisings, pirate
raids and British depredations these missions
were removed further south in 1686.
A map of St. Simons Island made in 1739 by
Capt. John Thomas, engineer in Oglethorpe's
Regiment, locates an
"OLD SPANISH GARDEN"
near this site. In this area materials from
the Spanish mission period have been found."
Type of Marker: Other
Marker #: 063-6
Date: 1954
Sponsor: GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION
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