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Sunbury, Georgia
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Sunbury is a ghost town in Liberty County, Georgia. Established in 1758, the town was mostly abandoned by the mid-1800s.
The town is located on the south bank of the Midway River, in an area that was first settled by Europeans in the 1750s. The town was established in 1758 and quickly became an important seaport for the Province of Georgia after becoming a port of entry in the 1760s, rivaling the nearby port city of Savannah. During the American Revolutionary War, the town was defended by American troops stationed at Fort Morris. However, the town and fort were captured by the British in 1779, who burned the town near the war's end. Following the war, the town was economically devastated and struggled to recover. In the 1790s, the town lost its status as county seat and was later affected by an outbreak of yellow fever and two damaging hurricanes. What remained of the town in the mid-1800s was destroyed in 1864 as part of Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
The area that would become the town of Sunbury was first settled by Europeans in 1752 by the families of Benjamin and Samuel Baker, from the British Province of South Carolina. The site was on the south bank of the Midway River, in what was at the time the Province of Georgia, on a bluff several miles upriver from St. Catherine's Sound. In 1757, of this area was conveyed by King George II of Great Britain to Mark Carr, a wealthy military officer. Carr sold some land lots to other people, and soon several wharves on the river and a trading post were established.
On June 20, 1758, Mark Carr and several other men from the area agreed to establish a town on Carr's land. Carr oversaw much of the planning for this new town, including the town's layout, the architectural style that would be used for the buildings, and the cost for each land lot. Each of the 496 lots would measure by and would surround three town squares, similar in layout to Savannah, Georgia, which had a unique system of squares. These three squares were named King's Square, Meeting Square, and Church Square.
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