In the early 1740s, Broad Street was Frederica's main avenue, leading from the town gate to the fort. On a typical day, women worked in fenced gardens, children played in the streets, soldiers visited taverns and dealt with tradesmen and Indians who brought in game, and the town's inhabitants numbered one thousand. Some of Frederica's most prosperous citizens built their houses of brick and tabby here, side by side with the wood houses and thatched huts of less wealthy freeholders. In some respects, Frederica resembled a typical English town, but it was only a small island of British civilization on the edge of the great American wilderness.
