Looking out at Darien
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Looking out at Darien
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
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Photograph - Photography
Description
Image is a view of Darien, Georgia through a window of a store ruin. Darien is the second oldest planned city in Georgia and was originally called New Inverness. The town of Darien was founded in January 1736 by Scottish Highlanders recruited by James Oglethorpe to act as settler-soldiers protecting the frontiers of Georgia from the Spanish in Florida, the French in the Alabama basin and their Indian allies. On 10 January 1736, 177 Scottish emigrants, including women and children, arrived from around Inverness, Scotland onboard the Prince of Wales to establish Darien, which was named after the Darien Scheme, a former Scottish colony in Panama.
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All Places On the Atlantic Group - 11/15/2014
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August 13th, 2013
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