John Wesley Landing Site

John Wesley landed in America on this island on February 6, 1736. In his journal, he wrote that about eight in the morning he first set foot on American ground on a small uninhabited island over against Tybee, called by the English Peeper Island. Mr. Oglethrope led the party through the moorish land on the shore to a rising ground, where they chose an open place surrounded with myrtles, bays, and cedars that sheltered them from sun and wind, and called their little flock together to prayers.

Georgia · United States