Point Peter State Historical
Marker
Located on Point Peter Rd. near intersection
with Osborne St. Marys, Ga.
(Text)
POINT PETER
East of here, at the junction
of Peter Creek and St. Mary's river, the British built Fort Tonyn
in 1776; controlling the southern part of the colony of Georgia
for two years.
In 1778, American Revolutionary
forces, both land and water, forced evacuation of the exposed
position. The English retreated N.W. along North river into Pagan
Creek Plantation, home of the Tories, Charles and Jermyn Wright,
brothers of Royal Governor James Wright.
On high land along Alligator
(now Borell) creek, they built log and sand breastworks and repulsed
the American Cavalry under Col. Elijah Clark.
It appears that in the War
of 1812, Fort Pickering was built on the Fort Tonyn site.
020-8 GEORGIA
HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1953
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