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| The first view a visitor to Frederica has is of the denfensive earthenworks and moat which once surrounded the town. This area was restored in the early 1950s when the National Monument was established.
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| None of the houses that civilians lived in is still standing. All that we find are the foundations uncovered by archaeologists. Most of the houses were abandoned in the 1750sThe smaller artifacts they found are in the Monument's museum and storerooms, at the Southeast Archaeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida--and in Shiner's Trench.
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| General Oglethorpe chose a good defensible site for Fort Frederica. Its cannon could shoot any approaching Spanish ship out of the water.
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| Much of the fort has been washed away by the Frederica River. The landward side is still in fairly good condition considering its age and 200 hundred years of neglect from 1750 to 1950.
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| Many of the unmarried enlisted men lived in the tabby barracks at the rear right of this image of a house ruin. [Tabby was a building material popular in colonial times. It is made of 1 part crushed and charred oyster shells, a part oyster shells and 1 part clean sand. Builders mixed this concoction with water and poured it into forms
which were left in place until the tabby set. Several layers might be poured on top of each other to form building walls.
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