From the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island,
here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island's early history.
Much of what defines our view of the place dates from the Jekyll
Island Club era. Founded in 1886, the Club was the private resort
of America's moneyed elite, including the Vanderbilts,
Rockefellers, and Pulitzers. In her new book that ranges from
pre-Columbian times through the Civil War and its aftermath, June
Hall McCash shows how the environment, human conflict, and a desire
for refuge shaped the island long before the Club's founding.
Jekyll's earliest identifiable inhabitants were the Timucua, a
flourishing group of Native Americans who became extinct within two
hundred years after their first contact with Europeans. Caught up
in the New World contests among France, Spain, and England, the
island eventually became part of a thriving English colony. In
subsequent stories of Jekyll and its residents, the drama of our
nation plays out in microcosm. The American Revolution, the War of
1812, the slavery era, and the Civil War brought change to the
island, as did hurricanes and cotton farming. Personality conflicts
and unsanctioned love affairs also had an impact, and McCash's
narrative is filled with the names of Jekyll's powerful and often
colorful families, including Horton, Martin, Leake, and du
Bignon.
Bringing insight and detail to a largely untold chapter of
Jekyll's past, June Hall McCash breathes life into a small part of
Georgia that looms large in the state's history.
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