San Lorenzo de Ibihica

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San Lorenzo de Ibihica was a Spanish Franciscan mission built in the early 17th century in the southeast of present-day U.S. state of Georgia. It was part of Spain's effort to colonize the region of Spanish Florida and convert the Timucua Native Americans to Catholicism.

The mission was established soon after 1612 among the Timucuan chiefdom called Ibihica. Its precise location remains unknown, but it was probably sited east of the Okefenokee Swamp, near the Charlton-Camdem countyline, just north of the present border between Georgia and Florida and between St. Marys River and Satilla River.

[edit] See also

• Spanish missions in Florida
• Spanish missions in Georgia

[edit] References

• Milanich, Jerald T. (2000). "The Timucua Indians of Northern Florida and Southern Georgia", in Bonnie G. McEwan (ed.): Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1778-5.