Fort King George

Fort King George State Historic Site is in Darien on the Georgia coast, at the mouth of the Altamaha River, near I-95. In 1721, Colonel John “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell had a fort built here, then the southernmost British outpost in North America. According to Explore Georgia, it is the oldest surviving English fort on Georgia's coast. The garrison consisted of older veterans; about 140 men died, mostly of disease.

Today you see a reconstructed fort with a blockhouse, barracks, officers' quarters, guardhouse and palisades. The blockhouse, about 12 m (40 ft) tall, was rebuilt in 1988 from plans in the British archives. The museum tells of the Guale people, the Mission Santo Domingo de Talaje, the Scottish settlers of Darien and the 19th-century sawmill industry; remains of sawmills can be seen. A cemetery holds the graves of 17 British soldiers. The site is on the Colonial Coast Birding Trail, and parking is free.