Moniac is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

situated along the St. Marys River, in southern Charlton County in the

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. Part of the "Georgia Bend" (the "tail" of Georgia that protrudes farther south than the rest of the state), the area was an early trading post in the 1820s as the last outpost before crossing into the

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territory. The settlement's name comes from Colonel

David Moniac David Moniac (December 25, 1802November 21, 1836) was a United States Army soldier of Muscogee descent. He was the first Native American and first non-white graduate of any race from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 18 ...

, a Creek Indian and West Point graduate who was killed during the second Seminole Indian War. The fort was dismantled in 1842.

Fort Moniac

To protect the settlement from Indian raids, a fort named Fort Moniac was built across the St. Marys from the settlement in 1838.

Geography

Located near the

Okefenokee Swamp The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Ref ...

, the area was evacuated in May 2007 during the

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References

History
Roots website

External links

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