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Remains of Sunbury Plantation
The grand two-story plantation home of Mr. & Mrs. Allen Stevens once stood at this site on the Medway River. All that remain are a few outbuildings. I’m not sure when the house was built, but...
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Hopeton-Altama Plantation, Glynn County
Altama Plantation House George III of England granted 2,000 acres along the south bank of the Altamaha River to William Hopeton in 1763 and Hopeton soon set about creating the rice plantation which...
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Charlie Teeple’s, Thunderbolt
From 1975-2004, Charlie Teeple’s in Thunderbolt was one of Savannah’s favorite seafood restaurants. Steamed crabs and oysters were among their most popular offerings. This building wasn’t the...
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Isle of Hope Union Baptist Church, 1941, Sandfly
This historic congregation was organized on 23 June 1873 by Lucius Houston, John Simmons and the Reverend Quives Frazier. The present structure was rebuilt to replace the original meeting house in...
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Ashantilly, Darien
Now known as The Ashantilly Center, a non-profit educational and cultural historic site, the focal point of this property is “Old Tabby”, which was the mainland home of early Georgia planter and...
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The Ashantilly Press, Darien
This was home to Bill Haynes’ Ashantilly Press, located on the grounds of the Ashantilly Center near Darien. The well-stocked print shop produced fine letterpress books and other ephemera in Haynes’...
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Colonial Faire & Muster, Isle of Hope
The first weekend in February brings a popular celebration to historic Wormsloe each year, with colorful reenactors and period vendors on hand. Colonial-era dances are always a popular activity and...
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Vernacular House, Glynn County
This house is a bit of a landmark on US 17, north of Brunswick. I notice it every time I drive past it, because it seems so out of place. Its condition is rapidly deteriorating. It appears to have...
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Jake’s Place, Darien
Jake’s Places has been an important cultural center in Darien’s historically black Mentionville neighborhood for decades. It was a once a stop on the Chitlin’ Circuit and legends like B.B. King,...
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Vernacular Cottage, Darien
This tiny cottage/cabin has Queen Anne posts but beyond that is wholly vernacular. It’s an interesting structure, perhaps a guest house at one time.
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Shotgun House, Darien
This house has been modified from its original shotgun style but retains the shotgun appearance from the front.
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William Tyson House, Darien
Billy Bolin notes that this Cape Cod house was moved to Darien from rural McIntosh County.
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Raymond Clancy House, Circa 1870, Darien
Though obscured by landscaping today, Raymond Clancy’s Georgian cottage, built a few years after the Civil War, is one of Darien’s nicest surviving 19th-century homes. West Darien Historic District,...
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Gable Front House, Darien
This is one of numerous vernacular houses that’s recently been restored in Darien.
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Sans Souci Apartments, 1896, Jekyll Island
J. P. Morgan headed a coporation of six club members including James J. Hill, Pierre Lorilard, William Rockefeller, J. A. Scrymser, and Frederick G. Bourne that built Sans Souci and held joint...
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Goodyear Cottage, 1903, Jekyll Island
Built for Frank H. Goodyear of Buffalo, New York, this cottage was restored in 1973 and now serves as a gallery space and gift shop for the Jekyll Island Arts Association. Jekyll Island Club National...
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DuBignon Cottage, 1884, Jekyll Island
Built as a farmhouse for John Eugene DuBignon before he sold the island, this Stick Style Victorian seems out of place among the grander cottages built later by members of the Jekyll Island Club. It...
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Mistletoe, 1900, Jekyll Island
Charles Alling Gifford built Mistletoe in the Dutch Colonial Revival style for Pittsburgh manufacturer and U. S. Congressman Henry Kirke Porter. Upon Porter’s death, John Claflin purchased Mistletoe....
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Indian Mound Cottage, 1892, Jekyll Island
Gordon McKay of Massachusetts built Indian Mound and so named it for a mound on the lawn, then thought to have been a burial site of the Guale Indians but later found to be a shell midden. William...
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John Rudolph House, 1870, St. Marys
St. Marys Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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