Fort Frederica National Monument
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"Born of war, Frederica expired with the coming of peace. Oglethorpe himself, after one more foray against Spanish Florida, sailed to England for the last time in 1743, and his regiment was disbanded in 1749. Without the money brought by the several hundred soldiers, the shopkeepers, tradespeople and the town could hardly prosper. By 1755 Frederica presented a picture, as one visitor put it, of 'houses without inhabitants, barracks without soldiers, guns without carriages, and streets overgrown with weeds.' Though the town hung on a few years longer, even surviving a fire in 1758, it had outlived its purpose and fell into ruin."
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IS THIS THE INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY IN VIEW?
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