Fort Barrington #3 Traditional Cache
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Sometimes the historical marker just don't put you at the site...but thanks to Geocaches you can see things you would not see other wise. This is a three part series located at Fort Barrington. The fort is long gone, but the area along the Altamaha River is full of life. Cache is placed at the beginning of Old Barrington Rd
This cache an easy P&G
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Fort Barrington State Historical Marker
Located on Ga. 57 approx. several yards from the McIntosh County line and 3.7 miles north of Townsend, Ga.
Fort Barrington, a stronghold whose origin dates back to earliest Colonial times. It was built as a defense against the Spaniards and Indians and was called Fort Barrington in honor of a friend and kinsman of General James Edward Oglethorpe, lieutenant Colonel Josiah Barrington. This gentleman, a scion of the English nobility, was a large landowner in Georgia, whose home was just east of Barrington Ferry on San Savilla Bluff. Fort Barrington, which was twelve miles northwest of the town of Darien was renamed Fort Howe during the Revolution as it fell into the hands of the British.
The fort long ago ceased to exist, but the old military road which formerly ran between Savannah and fort Barrington is still known as the Old Barrington Road. Barrington Ferry, important ferry since colonial Days, was in use until the early years of the Twentieth Century.
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