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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.
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.
Fort Pulaski National Monument is located on Cockspur Island between Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia. It preserves Fort Pulaski, the place where the Union Army successfully tested rifled cannons in 1862, the success of which rendered brick fortifications obsolete. The fort was also used as a prisoner-of-war camp. [4]
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
Seeing possible profits from the use of slave labor, Georgia's planters overruled Oglethorpe's wishes and in 1749 repealed the anti-slavery provision and passed legislation to allow slavery in the colony of Georgia. [3] In the legislation, the erection of a lazaretto, or quarantine station, was ordered to be built on Tybee Island.
It is the location of a hydrogen bomb lost by a B-47 Stratojet bomber in 1958. This lost hydrogen bomb is also known as the Tybee Bomb.On the night of February 5, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet bomber carrying a hydrogen bomb on a night training flight off the Georgia coast collided with an F-86 Saberjet fighter at 36,000 feet.
The Tybee Island Light is a lighthouse located on the north end of Tybee Island, Georgia. It overlooks the Savannah River at the point where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean . The Tybee Light is one of seven surviving colonial-era lighthouse towers in the United States, but it was heavily modified during the mid-nineteenth century.
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.