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Spanish Mission Historical Marker
- Spanish Mission State Historical
Marker
- Located near entrance to Fort King George State Park
in Darien, Ga.
(Text)
- SITE OF EARLY SPANISH
MISSION
This high bluff was the site of
one of the early Spanish Missions of the old District of Guale.
Here, in the late 16th and the 17th centuries, Franciscan friars
labored with the Indians, converting them to Christianity and
instructing them in agriculture and other crafts of civilization.
Occupied by a large Indian village
before the coming of Spaniards, this tract was an ideal site
for the mission and school activities of the Spanish priests.
Archaeological excavations in the area in 1941 and 1953 disclosed
evidence of both Indian and Spanish occupation - Indian pottery
and bone tools with Spanish olive jars, majolica and iron work,
outlines of buildings constructed before and after the coming
of white men.
Built in the area called by the
Spaniards, "Talaje," the mission on this site was part
of a chain of missions and visitas by which Spain held title
for nearly two centuries to what is now the Coast of Georgia.
- 095-10 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1957
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