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Lime Burn and Town Life Event
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 31.224325, -81.386852
around the visitor center
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St. Simons Island, GA: Fort Frederica is an enigmatic place. Bleaching ruins dot the landscape where once a thriving town stood. A place that was home to roughly 1,000 boisterous people is now largely quiet. The site remains difficult to comprehend; its stories shrouded in a mysterious history.
Starting at 6:00pm visitors should meet in the Visitor Center breezeway, where a short tabby making demonstration will take place, followed by the lighting of the lime rick and the candle light tour.
The candle lit tour features the stories of settlers and soldiers. Soldiers from the 42nd Regiment of Foot will demonstrate their military skills. Musket and cannon firings will highlight the stories of the fight for British rights to Georgia – and the colony’s survival.
Frederica’s townspeople will be featured. Visitors can meet the citizens on the original lots where they lived and plied their trades. Visitors will glimpse the struggles that the settlers had to overcome.
In the evening, a truly spectacular sight will be displayed. The burning of a lime rick will be the backdrop for an evening of storytelling and history. A lime rick constructed of stacked logs and laden with racks of oyster shells will burn. The intense heat of the fire breaks down the shell into lime. It was this source of lime that allowed Frederica's settlers to build tabby homes that were so durable that ruins still mark the site's where Frederica's settlers lived.
The Lime Rick Burn will occur on November 18, 2017, weather permitting. The Tabby Demonstration begins at 6 pm. followed by the firing of the lime rick and a time traveling tour given by candle light.
This event is free to everyone.
Reservation or Registration: No
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