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McIntosh Reserve is an outdoor recreation area along the Chattahoochee River located in Carroll County, Georgia. The 527-acre (2.13 km 2 ) park is operated by the Carroll County Recreation Department and supports outdoor activities including camping , hiking, fishing, and others.
The Savannah National Wildlife Refuge is a 31,551-acre (12,768 ha) National Wildlife Refuge located in Chatham and Effingham counties in Georgia and Jasper County in South Carolina.
His burial site and part of his plantation have been preserved as the McIntosh Reserve in Carroll County, Georgia. The grave is located near a replica of McIntosh's home in McIntosh Reserve Park near Whitesburg. [25] Members of the National Council, including Menawa, went to Washington to protest the 1825 treaty.
The Council ruled that McIntosh and other signatories had committed a capital offense against the Creek government and people by ceding communal lands, and ordered their execution. [14] McIntosh was murdered at his home, Acorn Bluff, in 1825. [14] McIntosh's grave is located in the McIntosh Reserve, adjacent to his reconstructed home. [10]
McIntosh Reserve Park in Carroll County, Georgia, preserves some of the McIntosh plantation and his burial site at the eastern end of McIntosh Road. McIntosh was executed at his plantation on April 30, 1825, by Law Defenders on the order of the Creek National Council for having signed the Treaty of Indian Springs in 1825. The treaty ceded much ...
Sapelo Island / ˈ s æ p əl oʊ / 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 ...
A 1927 postcard depicting the Railway Conductors Home, Oatland Island, Savannah, Georgia. In March 1926, Oatland Island was selected by the Order of Railway Conductors to be the site for the construction of a new $1M retirement home for indigent [7] and "aged conductors and their wives" and widows of conductors. [8]
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1962. It consists of 2,762 acres (11.18 km 2) of saltwater marsh, grassland, mixed deciduous woods, and cropland located on an abandoned military airfield in McIntosh County, Georgia, north of the intersection of Route 131 and Harris Neck Airport Road, about 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Savannah, Georgia.