Editing St. Simons, Georgia (section)

=== Fort Frederica ===
{{main|Fort Frederica National Monument}}
[[File:GA St Simons Fort Frederica NM fort02.jpg|thumb|Remains of Fort Frederica]]
Fort Frederica, now [[Fort Frederica National Monument]], was built beginning in 1736 as the military headquarters of the [[Province of Georgia]] during the early English [[Colonial America|colonial period]]. It served as a buffer against [[Spain|Spanish]] incursion from [[Florida]].

Nearby is the site of the [[Battle of Gully Hole Creek]] and [[Battle of Bloody Marsh]], where on July 7, 1742, the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] ambushed Spanish troops marching single file through the marsh and routed them from the island. This marked the end of the Spanish efforts to invade Georgia during the [[War of Jenkins' Ear]].<ref>[http://www.glynncounty.com/cgi-bin/oaktree.pl?dbf=data.txt&ID=00001260 Fort Frederica National Monument, 6515 Frederica Road, St. Simons Island, GA 31522, Historic_Places, http://www.nps.gov/fofr/<!-- Bot generated title -->], National Park Service</ref>

It was preserved in the 20th century and identified as a national historic site largely by the efforts of Margaret Davis Cates, a resident who contributed much to historic preservation. She helped raise more than $100,000 (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=100000|start_year=1941}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) in 1941 to buy the site of the fort and conduct stabilization and some preservation. It was designated as a [[National Monument]] in 1947.<ref>http://www.nps.gov/fofr/historyculture/.../cate.pdf {{dead link|date=August 2021}}</ref>