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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
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.
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.
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.
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