Old Meeting House
Two hundred yards west of this spot stood the ´Old Meeting House,´ built before 1750 to serve the Scottish Presbyterians of the District of Darien. A landmark in Colonial days, it was in use...
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Rice Hope
Famous Rice and Indigo Plantation of Colonial and Revolutionary times, Rice Hope was the home of George McIntosh, son of John McIntosh Mor of Darien, and brother of General Lachlan...
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Mallow Plantation
This plantation was a Crown grant to Captain John McIntosh, a British Army officer who served in Florida during the War with Spain. Later, when this officer went into the Indian country,...
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Old Fort King George
Site of old Fort King George, built in 1721 by Col. John Barnwell, of South Carolina, under British Royal orders. This tiny cypress blockhouse, 26 feet square, with 3 floors, and a lookout in the...
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Fort Darien
Fort Darien, laid out by General James Edward Oglethorpe in 1736, was built on this first high bluff of the Altamaha river to protect the new town of Darien. It was a large fortification, with two...
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Old River Road
The River Road has changed but little in location since its beginning as a Military Route in 1739. Scottish Highlanders first marched over it on their way to invade Spanish Florida, and...
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Ardoch
Ardoch, fronting on the old State Road from Savannah to Darien where it traversed this Swamp, was the plantation home of the McDonalds from Colonial Days through the early 19th century. During the...
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St. Andrew's Cemetery
At the end of this avenue, on high land overlooking the creeks and marshes, Thomas Spalding of Sapelo established his family burial ground. For many years the Spaldings and their kinsmen were...
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Fort Barrington
Fort Barrington, about twelve miles west of here on the Altamaha River, was built in 1751. Lieut. Robert Baillie, in charge of construction, commanded the post for several years. Named Fort Howe...
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Baisden's Bluff Academy
Located a short distance East of here, near the River, Baisden´s Bluff Academy was the main educational institution in McIntosh County in the early years of the 19th century. A Boarding School,...
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The McIntosh Family of McIntosh County
The service of this family to America, since the first of the Clan, with their leader, Captain John McIntosh Mohr, came from the Highlands of Scotland to Georgia, in 1736, forms a brilliant...
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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...
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Famous Butler Authors
Pierce Butler and his daughter, Frances, who shared his interest in the South, returned to Butler island in 1866, and worked to rehabilitate the plantations. Pierce Butler died in 1867,...
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Site of Bank of Darien
The old Bank of Darien, in its day the strongest Bank South of Philadelphia, was organized in 1818 with a Capital Stock of $1,000,000. The first Directors on the part of the State were:...
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Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church
Saint Andrew´s Episcopal Church in Darien received its charter in 1843, under the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, first Bishop of the Diocese of Georgia. The church edifice, a large wooden building with...
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