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AJ's Fine Foods, formerly known as AJ Bayless, is a supermarket chain formerly headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It was founded by Arthur Joseph Bayless in the 1930s. It was founded by Arthur Joseph Bayless in the 1930s.
Early Episcopalian congregants originally met on Tybee Island's Methodist church. However, a new site was needed after the church was destroyed by a hurricane in 1948. The clergy chose to meet in the town's city hall. City hall was used until 1957, when it was decided that a more permanent site was needed.
Tybee Island (/ ˌ t aɪ b ɪ / TYE-bee) is a city and a barrier island in Chatham County, Georgia, 18 miles (29 km) east of Savannah. The name is used for both the city and the island, but geographically the two are not identical: only part of the island's territory lies within the city itself.
Tybee Island is the only coastal resort in Georgia comparable to other examples in the American coastal resort movement such as Cape May, New Jersey, Long Branch, New Jersey, and Nantucket, Massachusetts. The NRHP nomination expands on this: Tybee Island is the only example of the American coastal resort movement in Georgia.
The Union advance on Fort Pulaski began on November 24, 1861. Following reconnaissance that Confederates had abandoned Tybee Island, Du Pont ordered forward an amphibious raid with three gunboats at the Tybee Island Lighthouse. [35] Under a two-hour ship's bombardment, the Confederate pickets set fire to the lighthouse and withdrew. [36]
The Tybee Post Theater was the first Georgia project to receive a grant funded by specialized license plates. The $20,000 so garnered was applied to replacing the theater's doors and windows. [ 2 ] The now named Tybee Post Theater is becoming the cultural arts center for Tybee Island and the surrounding community featuring all types of live ...
Located in the mouth of the Savannah River, the 100-acre (0.40 km 2) refuge began as a 1-acre (4,000 m 2) oyster shoal, Oysterbed Island, used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a spoil disposal site to support their mandated harbor dredging activity. As a result, the majority of the refuge is now covered with sand deposits.
Little Tybee Island is located south of Tybee Island, Georgia, USA. [1] The size is 6,780 total acres including marsh. It is home to a number of endangered species of birds. The yachting events of the 1996 Summer Olympics were held off the island's coast in Wassaw Sound.