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Hip-Roof Cottages, Meridian
Hidden on the edge of the road by thick woods today, these utilitarian hip-roof/pyramidal cottages are some of the last surviving examples of a vernacular style that was once widespread among the...
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Manufactured House, Carnigan
Manufactured kit houses, like this well-preserved side-gabled example, proliferated in McIntosh County (and much of America) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Such structures were improvements over earlier...
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Gable Front Cottage, Carnigan
Vernacular housing of the early 20th century, much of it related to the Gullah-Geechee community, is growing much rarer on the coast. Survivors are important links to the cultural history of the...
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Carneghan Emanuel Baptist Church, McIntosh County
This church was constructed between 1979-1983. Set in a beautiful grove of moss-draped oaks, its of a style typical among African-American congregations in Coastal Georgia. [“Carneghan” is likely the...
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Ethington-Harp House, Circa 1849, The Ridge
The Ridge Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Blount House, 1880, The Ridge
This home has been expanded over time but is typical of the Georgian Cottage style so popular in Darien in the late 19th century. It is known as the Blount House and the old Methodist parsonage for a...
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Ferrell House, The Ridge
The Ridge Historic District, National Register of Historic Places
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Harris Neck Army Airfield Bunker, 1942
This structure served as the munitions bunker for Harris Neck Army Airfield. Earthworks surround three sides. A review of contemporary U. S. Geological Survey maps indicates that this was likely the...
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Lorillard Fountain & Pool, Harris Neck
Fountain at Lorillard Estate The following history of the site is taken from the interpretive panel at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge: Various plantations occupied this site from the 1740s...
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Thomas Landing, McIntosh County
Thomas Landing, on the South Newport River, has been occupied since the early days of Colonial Georgia and its history is indelibly linked to the hundreds of African-Americans who resided here. They...
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Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church, Cox
Wayfair Primitive Baptist Church is the only representative congregation of the Alabaha Association Crawfordites in McIntosh County. It was established in 1873 but little else is known about it. It is...
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LaRoche House Demolished in Crescent
During the first week of April 2020, the LaRoche House, one of the most iconic 19th-century houses in McIntosh County, was razed. Discussions with friends of the owners indicate that this was not an...
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