oemulgee

Updated: May 29, 2025

True, after the "American Treaty" of 1670 between England and Spain, the English built a small fort upon Cumberland Island, south of the Altamaha, and presently another Fort George to the northwest of the first, at the confluence of the rivers Oconee and Oemulgee. There were, however, no true colonists between the Savannah and the Altamaha.

Mary Johnston - Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings