Existing comment:
From the sign:
Old Burial Ground:
Here, in unknown graves more than two centuries old, lie many of the early settlers of Frederica. Although the town they erected did not survive, they helped to lay the foundation for what would become the State of Georgia.
General James Oglethorpe, governor of the colony, passed this cemetery often en route to his plantation outside of town. The noted clergymen John and Charles Wesley [founders of Methodism] presided at funerals here. |