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A 600-acre wilderness tract on the northeast corner of St. Simons Island, Cannon's Point is the last remaining undisturbed maritime forest on the island. Owned by the St. Simons Land Trust, the Preserve includes a salt marsh, tidal creek, river shoreline, 4,000-year-old shell middens, and ruins of a 17th-century plantation house and slave quarters.
The Constitution is known as "Old Ironsides" for the way the cannonballs bounced off the hard oak planking. [ 1 ] This area was one of several St. Simons Island plantations owned by John Couper (father of James Hamilton Couper , see below) who lived at Cannon Point, St. Simons Island, and who donated his library of 20,000 volumes to the Library ...
A 600-acre wilderness tract on the Northeast corner of St. Simons Island, Cannon's Point is the last remaining undisturbed maritime forest on the island. Owned by the St. Simons Land Trust, the Preserve includes salt marsh, tidal creek, and river shoreline, as well as 4,000-year-old shell middens and ruins of a 17th-century plantation home and ...
A marsh near Jekyll Island This live oak tree in Brunswick, Georgia is called Lanier's Oak because the poet is said to have often rested beneath it to gaze at the marshes. The Marshes of Glynn, as seen from Brunswick, Georgia, USA. The trees are on St. Simons Island, about 4 miles away, and the St. Simons Lighthouse is visible on the right.
The end of the F. J. Torras causeway at St. Simons Island. Openings in the barrier for turtle crossing are visible. Sign on the Brunswick end. F.J. Torras Causeway is named for Fernando Joseph Torras (1885–1952), the causeway's main engineer who served as Brunswick's city manager for over 30 years.
Sea Island is a privately-owned, seaside resort island in Glynn County, Georgia, part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, which include St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, and the mainland city of Brunswick. Since 2016, Sea Island has been owned by the Broadmoor-Sea Island Company, a subsidiary of the Anschutz Corporation ...
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The island's maritime forest features cabbage palm, southern live oak, red cedar, red bay, southern magnolia and pines; often draped in Spanish moss. Little St. Simons is host to more than 334 species of birds; some are temporary residents who include the island in their migrations, while others are permanent residents.