Fort Augusta

This stone marks the site

of the

Colonial Fort Augusta,

built by order of General Oglethorpe

and the trustees

in 1736;

and known,

during the Revolution as

Fort Cornwallis.

St. Paul Church was built

in 1750,

under the curtain of ...

Fort Augusta ~ Fort Cornwallis / St. Paul's Episcopal Church

This site selected by fur traders Kennedy O`Brien and Roger de Lacy as a trading post to be nearer the Indians than Savannah Town, (in present Beech Island). To protect them and others, General Oglethorpe in 1735 built here Fort ...

Fort Augusta

Built in 1756-57 by Cols. Burd and Clapham and the key frontier outpost of the region. Mansion built 1852.

Marker is on North Front Street (State Highway 147), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org