Category Archives: Tybee Island GA
Fort Screven Guardhouse, 1905, Tybee Island
Built by the federal government to guard the entrance to old Fort Screven, the guardhouse also served as a jail. When the War Department sold Fort Screven to the city of Savannah Beach (now the city of Tybee Island) in … Continue reading
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Tybee Island Light Station, 1773>
The lower sixty feet of this lighthouse date to John Mulryne’s construction of 1773, itself a replacement for two previous lighthouses (the first of which was built for James Oglethorpe, in 1736). So strategic and important to the future growth … Continue reading
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Dunes, Tybee Island
http://www.sherpaguides.com/georgia/coast/natural_history
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Tybee Lighthouse & Keeper’s House
http://www.tybeelighthouse.org/
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