Oconee Old Town

Oconee Old Town is located in the state of Georgia in the southeastern United States . It is the name of a historic Native American settlement that was on the east bank of the Oconee River , about five miles south of Milledgeville. The suffix “Old Town” appears for the first time in 1755 on a map.

The place was discovered in 1935 by the archaeologist Arthur Kelly. He conducted excavations in 1935, which Gordon Willey continued in 1938. The exact location of the excavations was lost to archeology until 1995. The important, 300-year-old site was built shortly after the Spanish fort of Apalachicola was founded in 1687 on the central Chattahoochee River . It was abandoned after the Yamasee War in 1715, so it only had a lifespan of just over 25 years. In the 1750s there was a trading house there for a short time and from around 1787 until the final abandonment in 1793 there was a federal outpost.

Web links

• Lamar Institute Publications: "Mark Williams: Oconee Old Town " (PDF, 1.9 MB), accessed July 15, 2008

Coordinates: 33 ° 1 ′  N , 83 ° 11 ′  W