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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC4T_first-transcontinental-call_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
First Transcontinental Telephone call was submitted by a telephone of this type January 25, 1915. Mr. Theodore N. Vail, President American Telephone and Telegraph Company talked from Jekyll Island, Georgia to Mr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMC3H_horton-house_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
William Horton, " Undersheriff of Herefordshire,"England came to Georgia in 1736. He built thisbuilding for his plantation residence and it washis home until his death in 1749. Major Hortonsucceeded Oglethorpe as Commander of theRegiment of Britis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBI4_tabby_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
Tabby was the building material for walls, floors, and roofs widely used throughout coastal Georgia during the Military and Plantation Eras. It was composed of equal parts of sand, lime, oyster shell and water mixed into a mortar and poured into f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBI3_major-william-horton_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
Born in EnglandCame to Georgia in 1736 Died at Savannah in 1748 These are the remains of Horton's tabby house. Major Horton of Oglethorpe's Regiment, the first English resident of Jekyll Island, erected on the north end of Jekyll a two-story dwell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBGH_poulain-dubignon-and-dubignon-burying-ground_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
This burying ground contains the bodies of several members of the du Bignon family, descendants of Le Sieur Christophe Poulain de la Houssaye du Bignon, native of Saint-Malo in Brittany. One of four Frenchmen, former residents of Sapelo Island, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBFB_the-boat-house-site_St-Marys-GA.html
This is the site of the Jekyll Island Club Boat House where the 100 foot steamer The Jekyll Island was stored during the off season. (The Club season was usually from after New Years until before Easter).There was no Jekyll Creek bridge (dedicated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBEY_christ-episcopal-church_Saint-Simons-Island-GA.html
This congregation was established as a mission of the Church of England in February, 1736. The Rev. Charles Wesley, ordained priest of that Church, conducted the first services in the chapel within the walls of Fort Frederica. The Rev. John Wesley…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBEU_horton-house-historic-site_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
Jekyll Island was vey isolated from St.Simons and Brunswick in the 18th & 19thcenturies. Due to this isolation the du Bignonfamily was mostly self-sufficient, as were previous owners of the island such as WilliamHorton. What is now visible in t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBDR_jekyll-island-club-wharf_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
Here anchored the most luxurious pleasure craft in the world during the existence of the Jekyll Island Club, 1886-1942. No other yacht was comparable to John Pierpont Morgan's several Corsairs. Corsair II, too large to dock, anchored in the cha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBC5_horton-house-historical-site_Jekyll-Island-GA.html
William Horton decided to travel to Georgia with General James Oglethorpe in 1735. Unlike many passengers on the ship, Symond, he paid for his passage to America from England. Horton was granted 500 acres in return for paying for his passage. Ho…
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