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Sapelo Island Ferry
I’ve been sorting through some 3000 images for an upcoming book about Sapelo Island and came across these shots of the Katie Underwood at the confluence of the Duplin River and Doboy Sound. As one who...
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Atwood House, 1880s
This important historic house is a remnant of a lost era on the coast. It was built by the Atwood family, who operated the nearby Cedar Point Seafood Company, a local icon for many years. It was an...
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McIntosh Manor, Circa 1905, Eulonia
This fine old home on US 17 now serves as a bed and breakfast. http://www.mcintoshmanorga.com/
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Ashantilly, Darien
Now known as The Ashantilly Center, a non-profit educational and cultural historic site, the focal point of this property is “Old Tabby”, which was the mainland home of early Georgia planter and...
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The Ashantilly Press, Darien
This was home to Bill Haynes’ Ashantilly Press, located on the grounds of the Ashantilly Center near Darien. The well-stocked print shop produced fine letterpress books and other ephemera in Haynes’...
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Jake’s Place, Darien
Jake’s Places has been an important cultural center in Darien’s historically black Mentionville neighborhood for decades. It was a once a stop on the Chitlin’ Circuit and legends like B.B. King,...
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Vernacular Cottage, Darien
This tiny cottage/cabin has Queen Anne posts but beyond that is wholly vernacular. It’s an interesting structure, perhaps a guest house at one time.
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Shotgun House, Darien
This house has been modified from its original shotgun style but retains the shotgun appearance from the front.
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Raymond Clancy House, Circa 1870, Darien
Though obscured by landscaping today, Raymond Clancy’s Georgian cottage, built a few years after the Civil War, is one of Darien’s nicest surviving 19th-century homes. West Darien Historic District,...
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Gable Front House, Darien
This is one of numerous vernacular houses that’s recently been restored in Darien.
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Moses H. Thompson House, 1870, The Ridge
William H Davis writes: This is the Thompson family home. My great-great grandmother bought the lot behind this house from the Thompsons in the 1880s. The home is still in her estate but is abandoned....
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James Cromley House, Circa 1875, The Ridge
James Cromley, who was the keeper of the Sapelo Island lighthouse between 1873-1889, and the first of several Cromleys to hold that position, built this home in the mid-1870s. It is also known as the...
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Archie’s Restaurant, Circa 1975, Darien
First opened at a nearby location in 1940, and once known as the Shrimp Boat Restaurant, Archie’s was a longtime Darien landmark and a favorite stop for travelers along the busy Coastal Highway (US...
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Captain Dean House, Circa 1893, The Ridge
The Ridge Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Jack Nelson Ford, Darien
This has been remodeled and now serves as the Darien firehouse. Its Streamline Moderne architecture suggests it was likely built from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. The ‘modern” tabby walls have been...
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Gould Cemetery, Harris Neck
Plantations growing Sea Island cotton on Harris Neck as early as 1787 (Julianton was the first) ensured the presence of a large population of enslaved Africans, who were also essential to rice,...
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