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Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of enslaved people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia, on November 28, 1858. [1] It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. [ 1 ]
Wanderer (slave ship) Media in category "Jekyll Island" This category contains only the following file. Jekyll Island Club 1930 map.jpg 3,020 × 1,983; 2.26 MB
Walter Rogers Furness Cottage (1890-1891) – also known as the "Old Infirmary" or the "Jekyll Island Infirmary" – is a Shingle Style building on Jekyll Island, in Glynn County, Georgia, United States. It is one of thirty-three contributing properties in the 240-acre (97.1 hectares) Jekyll Island Club Historic District. [3]
A map of Jekyll Island from 1983. Jekyll Island is one of only four Georgia barrier islands that has a paved causeway to allow access from the mainland by car. It has 5,700 acres (23 km 2) of land, including 4,400 acres (18 km 2) of solid earth and a 240-acre (0.97 km 2) Jekyll Island Club Historic District.
After the unloading was complete, Lamar and his business associates were alerted and traveled to Jekyll Island on a chartered tugboat. About 300 of the Africans were taken and held at the plantation of Montmillon in South Carolina. Others were distributed to investors. Rumors about the Wanderer soon began to circulate in local newspapers. [24]
English: This is the original entrance of Jekyll Island, Georgia, US, after it became a state park. The letters were lighted at night, but have been gone for years and not replaced. The letters were lighted at night, but have been gone for years and not replaced.
Jekyll is a male juvenile great white shark that weighed almost 400 pounds and measured over eight feet when it was tagged last year while swimming in the waters off Jekyll Island, Georgia, one of ...
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