Military Road

This Military Road, built in 1738, connected Fort Frederica and Fort St. Simons at the southern tip of the island. Townspeople and soldiers built the road, hacking through six miles of thick woods and marshes in three days. Since the workers built the road without pay, General Oglethorpe rewarded them with rounds of drinks. On July 7, 1742, Frederica’s defenders marched down this road and encountered the Spanish grenadiers whom they defeated at Gully Hole Creek and Bloody Marsh.