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2. Sapelo Island - Wikipedia

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   Sapelo Island / ˈsæpəloʊ / is a state-protected barrier island located in McIntosh County, Georgia. The island is accessible only by boat; the primary ferry comes from the Sapelo Island Visitors Center in McIntosh County, Georgia, a seven-mile (11 km), twenty-minute trip. [1] It is the site of Hog Hammock, the last known Gullah community.

3. Dana A. Dorsey - Wikipedia

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   Dana Albert Dorsey is often described as Miami's first Black millionaire. Through his constant reinvesting of his rental income into building more rental property, he was able to be the key player in providing for a new library that would be named after him. With that rental income, Dorsey was able to invest in the land, and at one time owned ...

4. Cumberland Island - Wikipedia

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   Cumberland Island. Cumberland Island, in the southeastern United States, is the largest of the Sea Islands of Georgia. The long-staple Sea Island cotton was first grown here by a local family, the Millers, who helped Eli Whitney develop the cotton gin. With its unusual range of wildlife, the island has been declared a National Seashore.

5. 19 Black families purchase 96 acres of land to create a 'safe ...

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6. Jekyll Island - Wikipedia

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   Established. October 7, 1947. Governing body. Jekyll Island Authority [ 1 ] Jekyll Island is located off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia, in Glynn County. It is one of the Sea Islands and one of the Golden Isles of Georgia barrier islands. The island is owned by the State of Georgia and run by a self-sustaining, self-governing body.

7. Igbo Landing - Wikipedia

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   Igbo women, photographed in Nigeria, early 20th century. Igbo Landing (also called Ibo Landing, Ebo Landing, or Ebos Landing) is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of the slave ship they were on, and refused to ...

8. Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia) - Wikipedia

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   Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.

9. Freedom, Georgia - Wikipedia

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   Country. United States. State. Georgia. Freedom is a settlement in the U.S. state of Georgia established in September 2020, in the wake of a breakdown of race relations after the killing of several African Americans, including the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. [1] It was created by 19 African-American families who together purchased 96.71 ...