Fort Mudge, Georgia

Fort Mudge is an unincorporated community in Brantley County in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Fort Mudge (the fort after which the community is named) is described as "a temporary fortification during the Florida war", established in 1813.^[1] It was abandoned at the end of the war, although it may have been briefly reoccupied in 1838 during the Second Seminole War.^[2]

It is occasionally mentioned in the comic strip Pogo, being quite near the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp that is the strip's setting.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources lists several species of special concern in or near Fort Mudge.^[3]

Ctenium floridanum Florida Orange-grass
Gopherus polyphemus Gopher Tortoise
Hartwrightia floridana Hartwrightia
Neofiber alleni Round-tailed Muskrat
Ophisaurus compressus Island Glass Lizard
Picoides borealis Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Pteroglossaspis ecristata Crestless Plume Orchid
Scirpus etuberculatus Canby's Club-rush

U.S. Route 1 (concurrent with U.S. Route 23 and Georgia State Route 4 here, and also identified as Jacksonville Highway) runs through Fort Mudge.

[1]
Candler, Allan (1906). Georgia Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, etc, Vol II. State Historical Association. p. 65.
[2]
"Georgia Forts". Retrieved January 9, 2019.
[3]
Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Wildlife Resources Division. "Locations of Special Concern Animals, Plants and Natural Communities by Quarter Quad Names Starting with (F)". Archived from the original on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2011.