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The Spanish missions in Georgia comprised a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics in order to spread the Christian doctrine among the Guale and various Timucua peoples in what is now southeastern Georgia.

Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established a number of missions throughout Spanish Florida in order to convert the Native Americans to Christianity, to facilitate control of the area, and to prevent its colonization by other countries, in particular, England and France. Spanish Florida originally included much of what is now the Southeastern United States, although Spain never exercised long-term effective control over more than the northern part of what is now the state of Florida from present-day St. Augustine to the area around Tallahassee, southeastern Georgia, and some coastal settlements, such as Pensacola, Florida. A few short-lived missions were established in other locations, including Mission Santa Elena in present-day South Carolina, around the Florida peninsula, and in the interior of Georgia and Alabama.

Missions

This table includes doctrinas, missions that normally had one or more resident missionaries, but does not include visitas, which never had a resident missionary, and had less substantial church buildings where services were conducted by visiting missionaries.

See also

• History of Georgia
• Missions in Spanish Florida
• Viceroyalty of New Spain — Spanish colonial North America
• Spanish Louisiana — colonial region

Notes

1. ^ Place name. Mission name unknown.
2. ^ Espogache, Tolomato, and Tupiqui were neighboring towns in Guale which seem to have merged, or to have hosted the mission of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in sequence.
3. Some residents of the mission may have moved to La Natividad de Nuestra Señora de Tolomato near St. Augustine.
4. San Felipe may have merged with San Pedro de Atulteca.
5. The Atulteca mission had moved to Cumberland Island by 1675, then to Amelia Island by 1695.
6. Santa Isabel was located somewhere in the southern part of the Altamaha River basin, northeast of the mission at Santa Cruz de Tarihica.
7. Originally by the Altamaha River on the mainland, Santo Domingo moved to St. Simon's Island by 1675.
8. Asao and Talafe were distinct towns that were later merged. Both names of the mission were used at various times.

References

1. Cassanello & Stapleton 2013.
2. "El Camino Real – Division of Historical Resources". dos.myflorida.com. Florida Department of State. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
3. Childers 2004, pp. 24–32.
4. Worth, John E. (2007). The Struggle for the Georgia Coast. The University of Alabama Press. pp. 10, 19. ISBN 978-0-8173-5411-4.
5. Hann 1990, pp. 447–449.
6. ^ https://www.sas.usace.army.mil/Portals/61/SCI_CAPStudyInitiationReport08Aug17.pdf
7. ^ Hann 1990, p. 429.
8. Hann 1990, p. 445.
9. Hann 1990, pp. 449–450.
10. Hann 1990, p. 470.
11. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339830153_MISSIONS_SAN_BUENAVENTURA_AND_SANTA_CRUZ_DE_GUADALQUINI_RETREAT_FROM_THE_GEORGIA_COAST
12. Hann 1990, p. 442.
13. Hann 1990, pp. 466–467.
14. Hann 1990, pp. 467–468.
15. Hann 1990, pp. 498–499.
16. Jeffries, Richard W.; Moore, Christopher (2009). In Search of Mission San Joseph de Sapala: Mission Period Archaeological Research on Sapelo Island, Georgia 2003-2007. pp. 52–53.
17. Hann 1990, pp. 456–458.
18. Hann 1996, pp. 153–154.
19. Hann 1990, pp. 464–466.
20. Hellman, Robert (2007). Archaeological Investigations at Dungeness Historical District: Cumberland Island National Seashore (PDF) (Report). Southeastern Archaeology Conference. p. 33. Retrieved August 24, 2024.
21. Rock, Carolyn (May 1, 2010). "The San Pedro Mission Village on Cumberland Island, Georgia" (PDF). Journal of Global Initiatives: 87.
22. Hann 1990, pp. 437–438.
23. Hann 1990, p. 438.
24. Hann 1990, p. 440.
25. Hann 1990, p. 446.
26. "Borderland Conferences". Aucilla Research Institute. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
27. Hann 1990, p. 471.
28. Hann 1990, p. 463.
29. Hann 1990, pp. 470–471.
30. Hann 1990, pp. 463–464.
31. https://archaeology.uga.edu/sites/default/files/2021-12/uga_lab_series_81_redacted.pdf
32. Hann 1990, pp. 443–445.

Sources

• Cassanello, Robert; Stapleton, Kevin (November 18, 2013). "Episode 07 Spanish Mission Bell". A History of Central Florida Podcast. Retrieved August 28, 2024.
• Childers, Ronald Wayne (2004). "The Presidio System in Spanish Florida 1565-1763". Historical Archaeology. 38 (3): 24–32. doi:10.1007/BF03376651. JSTOR 25617178. S2CID 160809833.
• Hann, John H. (April 1990). "Summary Guide to Spanish Florida Missions and Visitas. With Churches in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries". The Americas. 46 (4): 470–471. doi:10.2307/1006866. JSTOR 1006866. S2CID 147329347.
• Hann, John H. (1996). A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida. pp. 6, 9. ISBN 0-8130-1424-7.
• Milanich, Jerald (1999). Laboring in the fields of the Lord: Spanish missions and Southeastern Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1560989408.

External links

• "Spanish Missions" in The New Georgia Encyclopedia

• Spanish missions in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Spanish Florida
• Native American history of Georgia (U.S. state)
• Pre-statehood history of Georgia (U.S. state)
• Colonial Mexico
• Colonial United States (Spanish)
• New Spain
• Spanish missions in the United States
• Spanish colonization of the Americas
• Spanish Colonial architecture in the United States