John Wesley Landing Site

<i>(upper inscription):</i> <center>John Wesley<br> landed in America<br> on this island.<br> February 6, 1736</center><br> <i>(lower inscription):</i><br> <center>From<br> the Journal of John Wesley</center> "Fri,6,- About eight in the morning I first set my foot on American ground. It was a small uninhabited island,... over against Tybee, called by the English Peeper Island. Mr. Oglethrope led us through the moorish land on the shore to a rising ground,... we chose an open place surrounded with Myrtles, Bays, and Cedars, which sheltered us both from sun and wind, and called our little flock together to prayers."<br><br> <i>(inscription on base):</i> <center>Erected in 1950 by<br> The Georgia Society of Colonial Dames<br> To Commemorate<br> John Wesley's Association with the Colony of Georgia </center>