Spanish missions in Georgia
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The Spanish missions in Georgia comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans. The Spanish chapter of Georgia's earliest colonial history is dominated by the lengthy mission era, extending from 1568 through 1684. Catholic missions were the primary means by which Georgia's indigenous Native American chiefdoms were assimilated into the Spanish colonial system along the northern frontier of greater Spanish Florida.
The early missions in present-day Georgia were established to serve the Guale and various Timucua peoples, including the Mocama. Later the missions served other peoples who had entered the region, including the Yamassee.
Missions[]
- (1595–1597), on Cumberland Island
- San Buenaventura de Guadalquini (1605–1684), on St. Simons Island
- (c. 1610–1663), on the mouth of the Ogeechee River
- (c. 1605–1684), on Sapelo Island
- San Lorenzo de Ibihica (c. 1620–1656), near Folkston
- San Pedro de Mocama (1587–c. 1660), on Cumberland Island
- (c. 1610–c. 1670), on the North Newport River
- (c. 1670–1684), on Cumberland Island
- Santa Catalina de Guale (1602–1702), on St. Catherines Island, Sapelo Island, and Amelia Island
- (1595–c. 1670), on the Sapelo River
- (c. 1625–1657), near Lake Park, Georgia
- Santa Isabel de Utinahica (c. 1610–c. 1640), at the forks of the Altamaha River
- Mission Santa Maria de los Angeles de Arapaja (c. 1625–1657), on the Alapaha River
- (c. 1620–1656), on the Okefenokee Swamp
- (1595–1661), at the mouth of the Altamaha River
- (1661–1684), on St. Simons Island
- (1595–1597), on the mainland near Sapelo Island
- Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Tolomato (1595–1597), on the mainland near St. Catherines Island
See also[]
- History of Georgia
- Spanish Florida — colonial region
- Spanish missions in Florida
- Viceroyalty of New Spain — Spanish colonial North America
- Spanish Louisiana — colonial region
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