| Fort Frederica National Monument | |
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| Location | St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA |
| Nearest city | Brunswick, Georgia |
| Coordinates | 31°13′26″N 81°23′36″W / 31.22384°N 81.39324°W |
| Area | 284.49 acres (115.13 ha)[1] |
| Authorized | May 26, 1936 |
| Visitors | 293,041 (in 2011)[2] |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
| Website | Fort Frederica National Monument |
 Fort Frederica in 2020 | |
| Nearest city | Brunswick, Georgia |
| Area | 218 acres (88.2 ha) |
| Built | 1736 |
| NRHP reference No. | 66000065[3] (original) 100005351 (increase) |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Boundary increase | July 23, 2020 |
Fort Frederica National Monument, on St. Simons Island, Georgia, preserves the archaeological remnants of a fort and town built by James Oglethorpe between 1736 and 1748 to protect the southern boundary of the British colony of Georgia from Spanish raids.[4] About 630 British troops were stationed at the fort.
A town of up to 1,000 colonial residents had grown up outside the fort; it was laid out following principles of the Oglethorpe Plan for towns in the Georgia Colony.[5] The town was named Frederica, after Frederick, Prince of Wales, son of King George II. The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
- ^ "Listing of acreage – December 31, 2011" (XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-05-13. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
- ^ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ para.5, Testimony of NPS Deputy Director A.Durand Jones regarding HR. 1113. Archived 2008-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, Dept. of Interior, 2004, accessed 3 Sept 2008
- ^ https://www.nps.gov/fofr/index.htm#:~:text=Fort%20Frederica%20illustrates%20the%20story,people%20that%20once%20lived%20here.