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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: August 2008
Caption: Old Fort King George "Lower Bluff " Marker
Additional Description: Colonel John Barnwell described the spartina grass marshes as "resembling meadows" with "vast cypress swamps." It was in these swamps that Barnwell sent his men to retrieve cypress logs. Small wonder the men mutinied and would not complete the fort until being promised higher wages. The small creek before you was once a navigable river. A cut made across the loop of the river in the late 1800's,for a navigation shortcut, caused the main currents of the river to shift about a mile south of here.
Submitted: September 1, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p33851
File Size: 0.158 Megabytes

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