Description

Tabby rubble from the 1830s is part of the Fort King George State Historic Site in Darien, GA.

History

The lower bluff on the Altamaha River near Darien has a rich history. It was home to the Guale people, and the Spanish set up a mission here to convert the Guale. In 1721 Colonel John Barnwell oversaw the construction of Fort King George, using slave labor. The British abandoned it in 1727. Beginning in 1736, Scots settled the area and started a lumber industry. In 1819 a sawmill was built, and the tabby ruins are from a house constructed during the 1830s when the sawmill was active. The lumber industry ended in 1923. The locale is now a state historic site with a Visitor Center and a reconstruction of Fort King George, the state of Georgia's oldest English fort.

Location

GPS: N 31°21.890 and W 81°25.014 (parking lot)

Address: 302 McIntosh Rd. SE, Darien, GA 31305

Accessibility: Open Tuesday–Sunday 9AM-5PM, Closed Monday (except holidays), Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, and Closed Tuesday when open on Monday. Admission is $7.50 Adults, $7.00 Seniors (62+), $4.50 Youth (6-17), and Free (under 6).

For more information, see Fort King George Historic Site.

Description

Wormsloe was a Colonial fortified house on the Isle of Hope in Savannah, GA. The tabby ruins include portions of the 8-foot wall surrounding the home, bastions on the corners, a well, a cellar, and a double-hearth brick chimney. In addition to the tabby ruins, Wormsloe State Historic Site features a majestic live oak avenue with gate, the Superintendent’s Cottage built in 1917 and restored in 1997, a museum, a gravesite marking the original burial ground of the Jones family, an observation deck overlooking the marshes, a colonial life area and living history camps, and walking trails.

History

Wormsloe was founded by Noble Jones (1702-75), who came to America with James Oglethorpe and served as surveyor, physician, carpenter, among other positions. Jones started constructing the fortified tabby house around 1737. The War of Jenkins’ Ear disrupted his work, but he finally finished it in 1745. The tabby house was abandoned after 1805, and Jones’ descendants built another home close by on the estate. 

Location

GPS: N 31°05.133 and W 081°25.254 (tabby ruins)

Address: 7601 Skidaway Road, Savannah, GA 31406

Accessibility: Wormsloe State Historic Site is open Tuesday–Sunday 9AM–5PM and
closed Monday (except holidays), Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day. 
Admission: $10.00 Adults, $9.00 Seniors (62+), $4.50 Youths (6-17), $1.00 Children (under 6).

For more information, go to Wormsloe State HIstoric Site.

Description

A small foundation ruin on the grounds of Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation is all that is left of a tabby rice mill in Brunswick, GA.

History

Around 1806 William Brailsford began the construction of a rice plantation along the Altamaha River. Brailsford's descendants managed the rice plantation until 1913, when they converted it to a dairy. The dairy closed in 1942, but the property remained in family hands. Upon her death in 1973, Ophelia Dent--the last family member--bequeathed Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation to the State of Georgia as a historic site.

Location

GPS: N 31°18.422 and W 81°27.465 (parking lot)

Address: 5556 U.S. Highway 17 North, Brunswick, GA 31525. It is one mile east of I-95 Exit #42, Route 99.

Accessibility: Open Wednesday-Sunday, 9am-5pm. Admission is $8. The site includes a Visitor Center, guided tours of the house, and structures related to rice plantation and dairy industries.

For more information see Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site. 

Description

Four standing ruins, along with rubble on the ground, are the remnants of William Carnochan’s sugar mill and rum distillery. 

History

According to a historical marker close by, The Thicket was operating in the early 1800s and was destroyed by a hurricane in 1824.

Location

GPS: N 31°25.759 and W 81°23.042

Address: Old Cane Mill Drive, Darien GA 31305

Accessibility: The ruins are located in a private gated community on Tolomato Island. A historical marker describing the ruins stands at the entrance to the Tolomato Causeway. From the causeway, turn right onto Old Cane Mill Drive at the Sugar Mill subdivision gated entrance. On the day we went, the gates were open to allow visitors to enter.  We could see the ruins on the left from our car.