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By Mike Stroud, January 27, 2008
John Wesley Landing Site Marker (lower inscription)
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| | (upper inscription):
John Wesley
landed in America
on this island.
February 6, 1736
(lower inscription):
From
the Journal of John Wesley
"Fri, 6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It . . . — — Map (db m12917) HM |
| | On February 6, 1736, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, landed at Peeper (now Cockspur) Island near here and there preached to his fellow voyagers his first sermon on American soil. A monument has been erected on Cockspur Island to commemorate . . . — — Map (db m5072) HM |
| Near Abercorn Street at St. Julian Street. |
| | On the "trust lot" south of President Street and immediately west of this square stood in 1736- 37 the parsonage in which John Wesley resided. In the adjoining garden he read, prayed and meditated. Weekly meetings of members of his Christ Church . . . — — Map (db m5275) HM |
| On Whitaker St near W. York St, on the left when traveling south. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m5936) HM |
| On Washington Street near Vernon Square, on the right. |
| | John Wesley, founder of Methodism, spent January 2 & 3, 1737, among the Scots in Darien, where he first prayed extempore.
In 1836 after many efforts, circuit riders aided by layman F. R. Shackelford organized a Society. On November 29, 1841, the . . . — — Map (db m10545) HM |
| On Arthur J. Moore Drive, 0.2 miles north of Hamilton Road. |
| | On October 21, 1735, John and Charles Wesley and General James Oglethorpe (founder of the colony of Georgia) and eighty-four other passengers sailed from England on the ship "The Simmonds". After a hundred and fourteen days they sailed into the . . . — — Map (db m12549) HM |
Jun. 17, 2024