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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. The island is Georgia's easternmost point.
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The island will also have more than 100 extra law enforcement officers, including from the Georgia State Patrol, Department of Natural Resources and Chatham County Sheriff's Office.
Thousands of participants will gather at the Tybee Post Pier & Pavilion beginning at 9 a.m., Jan.1, to take part in this wild winter tradition.
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.
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.
Beach goers walk around the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion on Saturday, July 1, 2023 on Tybee Island, GA. An advertised event called Turnt Island was not permitted and unorganized.
June 2, 1978 (Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (formerly W. Broad St.) and Railroad Ave. Savannah: A National Historic Landmark and currently the home of the Georgia State Railroad Museum; expansion of the Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed listing