Brigadier General James Screven

A planter and member of Georgia's revolutionary Council of Safety, General James Screven was fatally wounded leading militia in an ambush near Midway in November 1778; Screven County later bore his name.

Brigadier General James Screven is a historical marker in Tybee Island, Chatham County. It is one of 339 historical markers documented in Chatham County, among 480 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.0204, -80.8466 near Tybee Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Fort Screven Bakery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Louis Green and Joseph Sanders/John Curry, Albertha “Bertha” Lucas Tattnall and Edward “Bones” Tattnall/Henrietta Farabee, and The 1st Tybee Island Day Mark • The 2nd Tybee Island Day Mark 1742-1768.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.