Download or read book St. Catherines written by David Hurst Thomas and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Catherines is the story of how a team of archaeologists found the lost sixteenth-century Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale on the coastal Georgia island now known as St. Catherines. The discovery of mission Santa Catalina has contributed significantly to knowledge about early inhabitants of the island and about the Spanish presence in Georgia nearly two centuries before the arrival of British colonists.