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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM84A_epworth-by-the-sea-epworth-pioneers_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
Epworth by the SeaJohn and Charles Wesley were born in a parsonage with thatched roof and solidly built walls in Epworth, England. This home was destroyed by fire when John was six years old. All the family were able to escape except John. From an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM846_a-mission-by-the-sea-susannah-wesley_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
(Front)A Mission By The SeaIn 1949, the South Georgia Conference of the Methodist Church purchased 43.53 acres of the Hamilton Plantation from the Sea Island Company for a Christian conference center. They named "Epworth" after the Wesleys' Englis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM845_lovely-lane-chapel_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
[Left panel]Constructed in 1880 by Norman Dodge, repaired in 1897 after a hurricane damaged it, the Chapel was designed by architect G.W.Laine of Atlanta. It was originally known as Union Church and later connsecrated [sic] as St. James Episcopal.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM844_a-man-named-wesley-passed-this-way-lovely-lane-chapel_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
On October 21, 1735, John and Charles Wesley and General James Oglethorpe (founder of the colony of Georgia) and eighty-four other passengers sailed from England on the ship "The Simmonds". After a hundred and fourteen days they sailed into the Sa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM833_sinclair-plantation_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
This was the plantation of Archibald Sinclair, tything man of the town of Frederica. In 1765 it was granted to Donald Forbes as bounty land for his services in Oglethorpe`s regiment. Forbes sold to Gen. Lachlan McIntosh of Revolutionary War fame, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM825_demere-road_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
From the site of the Battle of Bloody Marsh to the intersection with Ocean Boulevard, this road is part of the Military Road, sometimes called The King's High Road, which was built by Frederica settlers in 1738 to connect Fort Frederica and Fort S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM815_old-spanish-garden_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
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 intr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM804_german-village_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
Here in 1736, Oglethorpe settled a group of German Lutherans, known as Salzburgers, and their settlement was called the German Village. These Salzburgers made their living by planting, fishing, and selling their products to the Frederica settlers.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7ZO_the-wesley-oak_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
Not far from this spot stood the "great tree" under which Charles Wesley had prayers and preached, March 14, 1736, the first Sunday after his arrival. There were about twenty people present, among whom was Mr. Oglethorpe. A year later, Georgia Whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7Z3_christ-church-cemetery_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
Here are buried former Rectors of Christ Church and their families, the families of early settlers and of plantation days, officers of the British Army, and soldiers of every war in which our country fought. The oldest tombstone is dated 1803 but …