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Early in the morning, early in the century, it happened: Solterra caught fire. Built by charter member Frederick Baker in 1890, the house was an emblem of the nineteenth century: proper, discrete, upright. The old century seemed to be going up in …
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Edwin Gould purchased Chichota cottage within 5 days of his first visit to Jekyll Island in December of 1900. He quickly began modifying the cottage for his family's arrival in March. Edwin made a commitment to the Island, purchasing several lots …
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With a family of eight Charles Stewart Maurice quickly decided accommodations of the Club House would not suffice. In 1890 he built Hollybourne, with plenty of large open, informal spaces, a home away from home during their winter stays here on th…
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The plantation that Christophe Du Bignonestablished at the beginning of the nineteethcentury had its good and bad years. When Christophe's youngest son, Henri,married Ann Amelia Nicolau in 1808, they weregiven 40 acres of planted cotton. This was…
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Horton - Du Bignon HouseDu Bignon Burial GroundBeginning with Poulain du Bignon, five du Bignon generations made Jekyll Island one of Georgia`s most romantic Golden Isles. This tabby ruin and burial ground alone remain from Jekyll Island's century…
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First Transcontinental Telephone call was submitted by a telephone of this type January 25, 1915. Mr. Theodore N. Vail, President American Telephone and Telegraph Company talked from Jekyll Island, Georgia to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of…
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William Horton, " Undersheriff of Herefordshire,"England came to Georgia in 1736. He built thisbuilding for his plantation residence and it washis home until his death in 1749. Major Hortonsucceeded Oglethorpe as Commander of theRegiment of Britis…
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Tabby was the building material for walls, floors, and roofs widely used throughout coastal Georgia during the Military and Plantation Eras. It was composed of equal parts of sand, lime, oyster shell and water mixed into a mortar and poured into f…
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Born in EnglandCame to Georgia in 1736 Died at Savannah in 1748 These are the remains of Horton's tabby house. Major Horton of Oglethorpe's Regiment, the first English resident of Jekyll Island, erected on the north end of Jekyll a two-story dwell…
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This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, wh…