St. Marys River (Florida–Georgia)

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File:USS Maryland nuclear sub, St. Mary's River, FL.jpg
St. Marys River seen from Fort Clinch, Florida, with nuclear submarine returning to the sub base at Kings Bay, Georgia

The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey,[1]) is a Script error: No such module "convert".[2] river in the southeastern United States. The river was known to the Timucua[3][4] as Thlathlothlaguphka,[5] or Phlaphlagaphgaw,[6] meaning "rotten fish".[7] French explorer Jean Ribault named the river the Seine when he encountered it in 1562.[8][9] From near its source in the Okefenokee Swamp, to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean, it forms a portion of the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and Florida. Part of the river runs along the southernmost point in the state of Georgia.

The St. Marys River rises as a tiny stream flowing from the western edge of Trail Ridge, the geological relic of a barrier island/dune system, and into the southeastern Okefenokee Swamp. Arching to the northwest, it loses its channel within the swamp, then turns back to the southwest and reforms a stream, at which point it becomes the St. Marys River. Joined by another stream, Moccasin Creek, the river emerges from the Okefenokee Swamp at Baxter, Florida/Moniac, Georgia. It then flows south, then east, then north, then east-southeast intersecting I-95 near Yulee, and finally emptying its waters into the Atlantic, near St. Marys, Georgia and Fernandina Beach, Florida.

Name

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names discourages the use of apostrophes in place names, including St. Marys River.[10][11]

1805 incident

On 6 July 1805, Lieutenant Robert Pigot of Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". arrived off the harbour in the French privateer schooner Matilda, which the British had captured three days earlier. On 7 July Pigot took Matilda Script error: No such module "convert". up the St Marys River to attack three vessels reported to be there. Along the way militia and riflemen fired on Matilda. Eventually the British reached the three vessels, which were lashed in a line across the river. They consisted of a Spanish privateer schooner and her two British prizes, the ship Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and the brig Ceres, which the Spanish privateer had captured some two months earlier. The Spaniards had armed Golden Grove with eight 6-pounder guns and six swivels, and given her a crew of 50 men. The brig too was armed with swivels and small arms. The Spanish schooner carried six guns and a crew of 70 men.[12]

Pigot engaged the vessels for an hour, and then after Matilda had grounded, took his crew in her boats and captured Golden Grove. The British then captured the other two vessels. Lastly, Pigot fired on a group of 100 militia, with a field gun, dispersing them. The British had two men killed, and 14 wounded, including Pigot, who had received two bullet wounds to head and one to a leg. A crowd of Americans on the Georgia side of the river watched the entire battle.[12]

War of 1812

See Battle of Fort Peter

Literature

Martin, Charles. Where the River Ends. New York, Broadway Books, 2008. Template:ISBN. An artist and his dying wife fulfill her wish of one last canoe ride from the headwaters of the St. Marys to the sea.

List of crossings

Crossing[13] Carries Image Location Coordinates
Headwaters (Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge)
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NS Rail Bridge File:Logo de Norfolk Southern.png Valdosta District
Reynolds Bridge Road (Abandoned) Culyer-Moniac
Script error: No such module "Jct". Baker County-Charlton County
Confluence with South Prong of the St. Mary's River
NS Rail Bridge File:Logo de Norfolk Southern.png Valdosta District Saint George-Kent
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Tracy's Ferry (Abandoned) Tracy's Ferry Road-Tracey Road Trader's Hill-Boulogne
CSX Rail Bridge File:CSX transp logo.svg Nahunta Subdivision Boulogne-Folkston
Script error: No such module "Jct". File:NB US 1-23-301 at the Saint Marys River Bridge.jpg
Confluence with Little St. Mary's River Gross-Kingsland
First Coast Railroad Seals Division (formerly CSX Kingsland Subdivision) File:Rt. 17, Florida-Georgia border bridges LCCN2017708694.tif
Blue Bridge Script error: No such module "Jct". File:NB Main Truss of the FL-GA St Marys River US 17 Bridge.jpg
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confluence with Bells River Fernandina Beach-St. Mary's
confluence with Jolly River (south) and Cumberland River (north)
confluence with Amelia River
Mouth (Atlantic Ocean)

See also

References

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  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Script error: No such module "If empty".
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed April 21, 2011
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