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Designated NHLD. December 16, 1969 [3] St. Catherines Island is a sea island on the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, 42 miles (80 km) south of Savannah in Liberty County. The island, located between St. Catherine's Sound and Sapelo Sound, is ten miles (16 km) long and from one to three miles (5 km) wide. It covers approximately 22,265 acres ...
South Newport River. / 31.55467; -81.19454. The South Newport River is a 42.6-mile-long (68.6 km) [1] river on the Atlantic coastal plain in the U.S. state of Georgia. It rises in Long County 3 miles (5 km) south of Walthourville and flows east-southeast, becoming the boundary between Liberty and McIntosh counties.
The North Newport River is a 26-mile-long (42 km) [1] tidal river in Liberty County in the U.S. state of Georgia. It rises just west of Interstate 95, 15 miles (24 km) south of Richmond Hill, and flows generally east-southeast to its mouth at the Medway River and St. Catherines Sound on the Atlantic Ocean. [2] [3]
Throughout the 1670s and 1680s, they attacked and destroyed missions on Saint Catherines Island, St Simons Island, Cumberland Island, and several interior missions situated close to the coast. San Joseph de Sapala on Sapelo Island was destroyed by pirates in 1683, leading to Spanish abandonment of the Guale and Mocama provinces. Likewise, the ...
The Sapelo River is a 23-mile-long (37 km) [1] primarily tidal river in McIntosh County in the U.S. state of Georgia.It forms between Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 17 near the community of Eulonia and winds generally east through salt marshes into Sapelo Sound, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates St. Catherines Island to the north from Sapelo Island to the south.
Sea Islands. The Sea Islands are a chain of over a hundred tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Southeastern United States, between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns rivers along South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The largest is Johns Island, South Carolina. Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah people.
The mission Santa Catalina de Guale was founded in 1602 on St. Catherines Island, one of the Sea Islands of the present-day U.S. state of Georgia.It was probably associated with a Guale village known today as the archaeological site "Wamassee Head", on St. Catherines Island.
1747 – Mary receives grant of St. Catherine, Sapelo, and Ossabaw Islands from the Creeks. 1760 – Mary settles back-pay claims and secures clear title to St. Catherine's Island from the British courts. 1765 – Mary dies in her sleep on St. Catherine's Island, She was 65 years old.