Alt Text Map of Fort Frederica National Monument Park entitled “Touring the Park.” To the left is an illustration of the park with regimented green dotted with red numbered circles. On the right each numbered circle has an extended description. Extended Description The landscape is rendered in perspective as if tilted up. The Visitor Center is near the bottom center of the map and number 6 is farthest away, near a building separated from a body of water with a patch of yellow terrain. Lighter green lines create a grid of long rectangles across the grassy lawn. The buildings and trees dotted around the site cast shadows in the bright sunlight. The Park The main center aisle leads from the Visitor Center through the grounds, and another aisle splits the grounds in half lengthwise. The grounds are laid out in neat aisles, three in the bottom left quadrant, five in the bottom right quadrant, three in the top left quadrant, six in the top right quadrant. Red circles with numbers mark points of interest, all annotated to the right of the map. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 are spaced evenly along the path leading from the Visitor Center with 1 before the entrance to the grounds, 2 at the entrance to the grounds, and 3 about a quarter of the way into the grounds. Number 4 is farther along on the right, just past the cross aisle, at the bottom left corner of the top right quadrant. Continuing on, number 5 is just across the aisle from 4 but on the other end of the mirroring rectangular plot. Number 6 is past the main grounds directly in line with the center aisle. Number 7 is to the right, and number 8 is at the bottom right corner of the park. Number 9 is back near the Visitor Center, across from the center aisle, at the very bottom of the map. The Annotations The text to the right begins with, “A good way to see Frederica is to browse through the town site with this guide in hand. Sites are marked on the map at left.” Numbered entries read as follows. A military road connected Frederica with Fort St. Simons, six miles away on the south end of the island. More like a path cut through forest than a road, it crossed marshy ground on a causeway. British troops marched down this path to battle invading Spanish troops in 1742. The town gate controlled land access to Frederica. Soldiers routinely stood guard here. Outside the gate, townspeople traded with local Creek and Yuchi Indians. Broad Street divided the town into north and southwards. The first settlers planted orange trees along this street, thinking that in time they would have a “very pretty effect on the view, and render…the town pleasingly shady.” The three-story Calwell House was the best dwelling in town. John Calwell made candles and soap here and his wife kept a shop. Two prominent families occupied the Hawkins-Davison houses. The west half was built by Thomas Hawkins, surgeon and apothecary, and the east half by tavernkeep and town constable Samuel Davison. They ran their businesses on the premises. A tabby fort guarded the twisting water approach to the town. The fort was square with bastions on each corner and separated from the town by a palisade and moat. Inside were a magazine for guns and ammunition, officers’ quarters, storehouses, and a forge. A spur battery, lost long ago to the river, mounted six or seven cannon. The barracks housed most of the several hundred soldiers garrisoned at Frederica. Other soldiers lived nearby in palmetto-thatched huts. The northeast bastion is a remnant of works Oglethorpe built in 1739 when invasion threatened. He fortified the town with an earthen rampart, a moat six- to eight-feet deep, and a cedar palisade 10 feet high. The burying ground, of which little is known, lay just east of town.