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Two miles east of here, on a bluff fronting the Savannah River, stood Mt. Pleasant, a former Uchee Indian town and English trading post. Even before the foundation of Georgia, the site was a key point on an arterial Indian path long used by Carolina traders. In July 1739, Gen. Oglethorpe began his noted journey there to treat with the Creek Indians at Coweta Town on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochee River, below today's Columbus. During Georgia's early years, the colony maintained a garrison and small fort at Mt. Pleasant under the command of Capt. Thomas Wiggin, an Indian trader.
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