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From 1870 to 1920, McIntosh County, Georgia, was one of the most
energetic communities on the southern coast. Its county seat,
Darien, never had a population of more than 2,000 residents; yet,
little Darien was, for a considerable time, the leading exporter of
yellow pitch pine timber on the
Atlantic Coast. Burned to ashes during the Civil War, Darien
rose up and, with its timber booms and sawmills, took its place
among the leading towns of the "New South" of the late nineteenth
century. In this unique photographic retrospective of Darien and
McIntosh County, over 200 images evoke generations past of dynamic,
hard-working people. Pictured within these pages are timber barons,
sawmill workers, railroad builders, and shrimp fishermen. They are
depicted among views of the buildings and structures associated
with an era that was the most active in the recorded history of the
community, which dates back to the earliest days of the Georgia
colony in 1736.
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Richmond Hill (Hardcover)
Buddy Sullivan; As told to Richmond Hill Historical Society
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R702
Discovery Miles 7 020
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina,
arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed
Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at
Champneys. Nearby was Butler's Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble
Butler in her antebellum "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian
Plantation." Legare also served as the clerk of the city of Darien
during the first three decades of the twentieth century,
maintaining detailed records of public business and documenting
local commercial and civic affairs.
Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal
containing his observations and commentary on the development of
Darien as a center for timber exports and the gradual decline of
the rice industry. South Carolina and Georgia led the world in rice
production in the mid-nineteenth century, and Legare's detailed
accounts of planting and management provide one of the outstanding
contemporary sources for what was becoming a vanishing way of life
in tidewater Georgia.
Legare's journals are a microcosmic history of Darien and its
environs during a time that was perhaps the most compelling in the
town's history. The industrial development of Darien in the
postbellum era was the essence of Henry Grady's vision of the
progressive New South, a factor not lost on Legare. He reflects on
the difficulties associated with rice planting; Darien's soaring,
then plummeting, fortunes with yellow pine timber; prominent
community members; and the development of local railroads. Legare
records these developments against the larger backdrop of America,
as his journal contains many observations on contemporary national
events.
Buddy Sullivan has placed the "Journal" in context with an
introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying the people and
events referred to by Legare. There is also considerable African
American history in the volume, as reflected both in Legare's
writings and in the editor's introduction and supplementary notes.
Sapelo, a state-protected barrier island off the Georgia coast, is
one of the state's greatest treasures. Presently owned almost
exclusively by the state and managed by the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources, Sapelo features unique nature charac teristics
that have made it a locus for scientific research and ecological
conservation. Beginning in 1949, when then Sapelo owner R. J.
Reynolds Jr. founded the Sapelo Island Research Foundation and
funded the research of biologist Eugene Odum, UGA's study of the
island's fragile wetlands helped foster the modern ecology
movement. With this book, Buddy Sullivan covers the full range of
the island's history, including Native American inhabitants;
Spanish missions; the antebellum plantation of the innovative
Thomas Spalding; the African American settlement of the island
after the Civil War; Sapelo's two twentieth-century millionaire
owners, Howard E. Coffin and R. J. Reynolds Jr., and the
development of the University of Georgia Marine Institute; the
state of Georgia acquisition; and the transition of Sapelo's
multiple African American communities into one. Sapelo Island's
history also offers insights into the unique cultural circumstances
of the residents of the community of Hog Hammock. Sullivan provides
in-depth examination of the important correlation between Sapelo's
culturally significant Geechee communities and the succession of
private and state owners of the island. The book's thematic
approach is one of "people and place": how prevailing environmental
conditions influenced the way white and black owners used the land
over generations, from agriculture in the past to island management
in the present. Enhanced by a large selection of contemporary color
photographs of the island as well as a selection of archival images
and maps, Sapelo documents a unique island history.
The plantation journal and daybook of Roswell King, Jr. who managed
rice and cotton lands in tidewater Georgia from 1819 to 1854 is
fully annotated and edited by the author. Set in the antebellum
coastal setting of Liberty County, Georgia, among the people and
places of the famous "children of pride" and the rice lands of the
Pierce M. Butler estate in neighboring McIntosh County, the author
provides an Introduction for context. Extensive endnotes,
photographs and maps.
In 1877, John Girardeau Legare of Adams Run, South Carolina,
arrived in Darien on the Georgia tidewater. Legare managed
Darien-area rice plantations, first at Generals Island, then at
Champneys. Nearby was Butler's Island, made famous by Fanny Kemble
Butler in her antebellum "Journal of a Residence on a Georgian
Plantation." Legare also served as the clerk of the city of Darien
during the first three decades of the twentieth century,
maintaining detailed records of public business and documenting
local commercial and civic affairs.
Almost to the day of his death in 1932, Legare kept a journal
containing his observations and commentary on the development of
Darien as a center for timber exports and the gradual decline of
the rice industry. South Carolina and Georgia led the world in rice
production in the mid-nineteenth century, and Legare's detailed
accounts of planting and management provide one of the outstanding
contemporary sources for what was becoming a vanishing way of life
in tidewater Georgia.
Legare's journals are a microcosmic history of Darien and its
environs during a time that was perhaps the most compelling in the
town's history. The industrial development of Darien in the
postbellum era was the essence of Henry Grady's vision of the
progressive New South, a factor not lost on Legare. He reflects on
the difficulties associated with rice planting; Darien's soaring,
then plummeting, fortunes with yellow pine timber; prominent
community members; and the development of local railroads. Legare
records these developments against the larger backdrop of America,
as his journal contains many observations on contemporary national
events.
Buddy Sullivan has placed the "Journal" in context with an
introduction and comprehensive endnotes identifying the people and
events referred to by Legare. There is also considerable African
American history in the volume, as reflected both in Legare's
writings and in the editor's introduction and supplementary notes.
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