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37-629: The library system is named after the three rivers that course through Southeast Georgia: the St. Marys River , the Altamaha River , and the Satilla River . TRRLS is a member of PINES , a program of the Georgia Public Library Service that covers 51 library systems in 146 counties of Georgia. Any Georgia resident or property owner, any student at a Georgia college or university, any member of

74-499: A dune and put to the sword by Menéndez's Spanish soldiers. Only a handful of Catholics, young musicians, and ship's boys were spared their lives. A similar surrender and mass execution of a smaller group of Frenchmen followed a few days later. This time a few Frenchmen, suspicious of their enemies, preferred to take their chances with the Native Americans. Altogether, Ribault and about 350 of his officers and men lost their lives in

111-581: A leg. A crowd of Americans on the Georgia side of the river watched the entire battle. See Battle of Fort Peter Martin, Charles. Where the River Ends . New York, Broadway Books, 2008. ISBN   9780767926980 . An artist and his dying wife fulfill her wish of one last canoe ride from the headwaters of the St. Marys to the sea. Jean Ribault Jean Ribault (also spelled Ribaut ) (1520 – October 12, 1565)

148-487: A patrol force of Spanish troops, probably under a hundred men. Ribault, believing his hungry men would be fed and decently treated, allowed himself to be bluffed into surrender. In groups of ten, the Frenchmen were rowed across to the mainland, hands tied behind their backs. Following the explicit orders of King Philip II of Spain , the prisoners were asked if they were professing Catholics. Those who were not were marched behind

185-407: A portion of the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and Florida . The river also serves as the southernmost point in the state of Georgia. The St. Marys River rises as a tiny stream, River Styx, flowing from the western edge of Trail Ridge, the geological relic of a barrier island/dune system, and into the southeastern Okefenokee Swamp. Arching to the northwest, it loses its channel within

222-511: A program of the University System of Georgia which stands for "GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online". This program offers residents in supported libraries access to over 100 databases indexing thousands of periodicals and scholarly journals. It also boasts over 10,000 journal titles in full text. Library patrons may access all databases inside the library and may use their PINES library card to access most databases from home. The region began as

259-530: A stone column claiming the territory for France. Ribault's fleet then proceeded north, charting more of the coastline and noting several rivers. Eventually, they came to the Port Royal Sound in present-day South Carolina , and Ribault elected to establish a settlement on Parris Island , one of the Sea Islands off the coast. Ribault oversaw the layout of a small fort, which was named Charlesfort in honor of

296-649: The Mayport Ferry Service boat, the Jean Ribault. In Beaufort and adjacent Port Royal, SC , Ribaut (spelled without the l ) Road is a major thoroughfare; as a segment of US 21 it passes near the Charlesfort site. Ribault was featured in the "Conquest of the Southeast" episode (2005) of The History Channel 's documentary miniseries Conquest of America and in the "Secrets of Spanish Florida" episode (2017) of

333-512: The New World to found a colony. Ribault left France on February 18 with a fleet of 150 colonists. A recently discovered document suggests that they were guided to Florida by Portuguese pilot Bartolomeu Borges. After crossing the Atlantic, they explored the mouth of the St. Johns River in modern-day Jacksonville, Florida. He named it the "River May", as this was the month when he found it, and erected

370-700: The United States Geological Survey , ) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) river in the southeastern United States . The river was known to the Timucua as Thlathlothlaguphka , or Phlaphlagaphgaw , meaning "rotten fish". French explorer Jean Ribault named the river the Seine when he encountered it in 1562. From near its source in the Okefenokee Swamp , to its mouth at the Atlantic Ocean , it forms

407-502: The British reached the three vessels, which were lashed in a line across the river. They consisted of a Spanish privateer schooner and her two British prizes, the ship Golden Grove and the brig Ceres , which the Spanish privateer had captured some two months earlier. The Spaniards had armed Golden Grove with eight 6-pounder guns and six swivels , and given her a crew of 50 men. The brig too

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444-740: The Brunswick Regional Library in 1949, with the existing Brunswick and Camden County libraries as members. The first regional meeting was held in Woodbine that year. The system was later renamed as the Brunswick-Glynn County Regional Library System in the 1960s. The regional library system was renamed as the Three Rivers Regional Library System in 2000, a nod to the three rivers -- the Altamaha,

481-615: The French colony of Fort Caroline in what is now Jacksonville, Florida . He and many of his followers died at the hands of Spanish soldiers during the Massacre at Matanzas Inlet , near St. Augustine . Ribault was born in the town of Dieppe in Normandy in 1520. He entered the French navy under the command of the Huguenot admiral Gaspard de Coligny . In 1562 Coligny chose him to lead an expedition to

518-501: The French galleons were also too large to cross the inlet, Ribault took his fleet south to pursue San Pelayo when the hurricane struck on September 11, driving his ships further south to their destruction on the Canaveral coast. Assuming that the majority of the French men-at-arms were on board Ribault's ships, leaving Fort Caroline defenseless, Menéndez ordered his infantrymen to march 40 miles (64 km) north to Fort Caroline, during

555-576: The French king Charles IX . Ribault left 27 men under the command of Albert de la Pierria to man the fort and soon set sail for France. Ribault's intention was to collect supplies for Charlesfort and return by the end of the year. When he arrived at Le Havre, however, he discovered the French Wars of Religion had broken out between the Catholic majority and the Protestant Huguenots. Ribault assisted

592-607: The Huguenots at Dieppe but was forced to flee to England when the city fell. While in England, he managed to gain an audience with Queen Elizabeth I and organized some backers for a plan to settle in America. However, despite this cordial welcome, he was soon arrested and detained in the Tower of London as a spy. During his time in England, and probably while imprisoned, Ribault wrote an account of

629-462: The River of May. After a brief naval skirmish, the French ships cut their anchor lines and fled, and Menéndez retreated to the next inlet to the south, landing his men on 7 September and establishing the settlement of St. Augustine . The Spanish hastily threw up palm-log and earthworks around an existing Timucua Indian village at their newly founded settlement and began unloading their ships. Before all of

666-509: The Satilla, and the St. Marys -- that tie the region together. Several existing or new libraries joined the region over the years: Charlton County (1952), Brantley County (1954), Wayne County (1955), McIntosh County (Ida Hilton Public Library) (1961), Long County (1961), St. Marys (1965), St. Simons Island (2007), Sapelo Island (Hog Hammock Public Library) (2008), Woodbine (2020), and Pierce County (2024). In 2012, Brunswick and St. Simons Island left

703-582: The Three Rivers Regional Library System to form the Marshes of Glynn Libraries . Built in 1937 through efforts by the Works Progress Administration , the Wayne County Library started off with a small, inadequate building. By the end of 1938 many of the books in the collection were already in bad repair, and public funding of the library was minimal. Constant financial support was afforded to

740-423: The despairing Laudonnière was preparing to sail home. Ribault promptly relieved Laudonnière as governor and assumed command of Fort Caroline. In the meantime, the Spanish, who had long maintained a claim over Florida, had made preparations to find and oust the French from Fort Caroline. In early September Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , newly-appointed adelantado of Florida, encountered Ribault's ships at anchor off

777-587: The end the Garden Club has raised $ 6,000 to be used for the project. In order to incorporate the ideologies of the Garden Club with the wishes of the Public Library blueprints called for a library which included large windows and French doors looking out onto a grassed terrace, nestled in a grove of pine trees. Due to problems in construction the entire $ 6,000 fund was spent before the building saw completion. The City of Jesup provided $ 200 for plumbing and heating, and

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814-463: The equipment and supplies could be unloaded, Menéndez sent his flagship San Pelayo away to Hispaniola, as it was too big to enter the St. Augustine Inlet and Menéndez expected an attack from Ribault. Jean Ribault did attack only hours later, and almost captured Menéndez who was on a smaller vessel offshore, but the Spaniard risked crossing the sandbar at the mouth of the inlet and made it to the harbor. As

851-492: The hurricane. On 20 September, the Spanish captured the now-lightly-defended French settlement; 140 men were immediately put to death. In the eyes of the king of Spain, the Protestant religion and acts of piracy committed from Fort Caroline made the entire settlement a dangerous nest of pirates, heretics, and trespassers on Spanish territory. Only about 60 women and children were spared. René Laudonnière and about 40 others escaped

888-530: The library by the Georgia Library Commission for its first decade in order to stay afloat. Towards the beginning of 1950 the Tecoma Garden Club helped to alleviate some of the library's financial issues. The club first secured permission and petitioned interested parties for monies to construct a library space in the local Community House. The initial goal of $ 2,000 was met and exceeded, and in

925-501: The military stationed in Georgia, and anyone who works in Georgia can get a free library card at any PINES library. Patrons who do not qualify for a free card may choose to pay an annual fee of $ 25.00 or a semi-annual fee of $ 12.50 and enjoy all the benefits of a free card. Patrons may use their PINES card at any PINES library to checkout, renew, or return items. Patrons may request items from any PINES library to be sent to their home library at no cost GPLS also provides access to GALILEO ,

962-606: The rest of the $ 2,000 deficit was raised through more efforts by the Garden Club. The library officially opened on November 9, 1949, and is the building which is still in use today. The library holds a WPA mural titled "General Oglethorpe Concludes a Treaty of Amity and Peace with the Creek Indians – May 18, 1733", painted in Jesup's United States post office in 1938 by David Hutchison . St. Marys River (Florida%E2%80%93Georgia) The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by

999-617: The shipwreck of Ribault's flagship, La Trinité , was located off of the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Several places and institutions in Jacksonville are named for Ribault, including Jean Ribault Middle School and Jean Ribault High School ; the Ribault Club on Fort George Island ; a tributary of the Trout River , the Ribault River ; several neighborhood streets near the river; and

1036-527: The soldiers to a mutiny in which he was deposed and killed. Afterward, the survivors elected to build a crude vessel and attempt to sail back to France. The trip was arduous, and most of the participants died before they finally reached the English coast, where they were rescued. News of this reached France just before Laudonnière had embarked on his voyage. Laudonnière ultimately set sail on April 22, 1564 and arrived at Florida two months later. The plan for Ribault

1073-600: The swamp, then turns back to the southwest and reforms a stream, at which point it becomes the St. Marys River. Joined by another stream, Moccasin Creek, the river emerges from the Okefenokee Swamp at Baxter, Florida/Moniac, Georgia. It then flows south, then east, then north, then east-southeast intersecting I-95 near Yulee , and finally emptying its waters into the Atlantic, near St. Marys, Georgia and Fernandina Beach, Florida . The U.S. Board on Geographic Names discourages

1110-406: The two massacres. The location of this event still carries today the name "Matanzas", the Spanish for "slaughters." Menéndez had carried out his orders to wipe out the French incursion. In 1568 French nobleman-turned-pirate Dominique de Gourgues avenged Ribault. He and 200 men attacked Spanish-held Fort Caroline, secured the garrison's surrender, and then put all the defenders to death. In 2018

1147-511: The use of apostrophes in place names, including St. Marys River. On 6 July 1805, Lieutenant Robert Pigot of HMS  Cambrian arrived off the harbour in the French privateer schooner Matilda , which the British had captured three days earlier. On 7 July Pigot took Matilda twelve miles (nineteen kilometres) up the St Marys River to attack three vessels reported to be there. Along the way militia and riflemen fired on Matilda . Eventually

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1184-570: The voyage, which survives only in English translation. The 1563 Peace of Amboise finally allowed Coligny to devote attention for a new voyage to North America. He appointed Ribault's former lieutenant, René Goulaine de Laudonnière , to replace Ribault in the North American endeavors. During this time, however, Charlesfort had fallen into despair. A fire destroyed most of the settlement's meager stores. Captain Albert de la Pierria's heavy discipline led

1221-567: The wrath of the Spaniards, and eventually returned to Europe to tell their tales. The same hurricane that masked the approach of Menéndez's troops on Fort Caroline, utterly destroyed all of Ribault's fleet, driving them up on the beach many miles south of their intended target. Several hundred soldiers and sailors made it ashore barely alive and then walked from near present-day Daytona Beach to Matanzas Inlet , 14 miles south of St. Augustine. The marooned sailors were soon tracked down by Menéndez and

1258-474: Was a French naval officer, navigator, and a colonizer of what would become the southeastern United States . He was a major figure in the French attempts to colonize Florida . A Huguenot and officer under Admiral Gaspard de Coligny , Ribault led an expedition to the New World in 1562 that founded the outpost of Charlesfort on Parris Island in present-day South Carolina . Two years later, he took over command of

1295-485: Was armed with swivels and small arms. The Spanish schooner carried six guns and a crew of 70 men. Pigot engaged the vessels for an hour, and then after Matilda had grounded, took his crew in her boats and captured Golden Grove . The British then captured the other two vessels. Lastly, Pigot fired on a group of 100 militia, with a field gun, dispersing them. The British had two men killed, and 14 wounded, including Pigot, who had received two bullet wounds to head and one to

1332-536: Was to follow him in Spring 1565 with reinforcements and fresh supplies. As Charlesfort was now abandoned, the expedition decided to found a new colony on the banks of the St. Johns River , the same area Ribault and company had explored on the prior voyage. They christened the settlement Fort Caroline . Fort Caroline sustained itself for the next year, but Ribault found himself caught up in the fresh outbreak of war in France and

1369-652: Was unable to set sail at the appointed time. As a result, the colony experienced food shortages and deteriorating conditions, and some soldiers mutinied and became pirates, attacking Spanish vessels in the Caribbean . The situation was exacerbated by a clash with the Utina , a Timucua Indian tribe up the river to the south. Ribault finally organized his fleet in the summer of 1565, ultimately departing from France with 800 new settlers and five ships. He arrived in Florida on August 28, just as

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