Sapelo Island - Visitor Center Tour
Public tour of Sapelo Island featuring the North end of the island, Indian shell ring, lighthouse, Reynolds Mansion and Hog Hammock.
To make reservations or for more information, please call the Sapelo Island Visitor Center at 912-437-3224.
Costs:
Adults (13 and up): $15.00
Children (6 – 12): $10.00
Ages 5 and under Free
Life on Sapelo Island (Short Documentary)
Sapelo Island is one in a long chain of barrier islands along the coast of Georgia, starting in South Carolina and ending in Florida. The island has a rich history including being a former slave plantation where they harvested wheat, tobacco and cotton. During the 1960s, the state government of Georgia bought the island from its current owner and turned it into a nature preserve and biology research center. Since then, part of the island has come back into the ownership of the descendants of former slaves. The rest is still owned by the government and part is a satellite campus for the University of Georgia. The town of Hog Hammock is the last human residence on the island and the population is dwindling. Older residents are fighting to preserve their heritage as children who go to school off the island, often choose not to return once they become adults. The future of the island and its residents is uncertain at this time.
Director - Tony Phillips
Executive Producer - Joshua Morton
Producer - Ken Daniels
Cinematographer - Allie Kairos
Sound Director - Roman Fruehan
Editor - Jed Lin
Starring:
Yvonne Grovner
JR Grovner
Nathaniel Thompson (Voiceover)
SCAD Film & Television Department 2015
Darien Georgia Tourism spot 4
Eagle Island Introduction - Vacation off Georgia's back barrier reef
Get away...no, really get away to Eagle Island, a back barrier island off the coast of Georgia. Easy to get to. Just a quick one hour drive to Darien from the Jacksonville, Florida airport or downtown Savannah, Georgia. Once you arrive in Darien, Captain Andy Hill will greet you and whisk you off to the island by boat where the superior accommodations exist in a natural setting. Think of it as the best of all worlds: a secluded island away from the hustle and bustle of the world; yet, surrounded by all the amenities of an elite hotel. Eagle Island has the makings for a real-life fairy tale. A fully equipped and stocked kitchen awaits your culinary expertise. As you prepare a snack, your thoughts wonder as you gaze upon fireplace flames. Sip your favorite beverage, take a deep breath and relax. The 360 porch offers opportunities for you to repose in an over-sized swing or jump into the hot-tub to soothe those muscles. A few steps from your bungalow, a fire-pit snuggles up to the pond. In the evening here is where you'll want to be to sit quietly and watch nature happen. Captain Andy's Low Country Boil is a Five Moon treat to place on your Top 10 Experiences list. If you've never tasted sweet Georgia shrimp, then you haven't fully lived. Imagine fresh crab, sweet shrimp, corn, potatoes, peppers all spiced juuuussst right. Now, with a full tummy and those baby blues beginning to close, you'll nod off on linens fit for royalty. Listen to natures' song outside your window and slumber the gentle sleep.
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Comfort Inn Darien - Darien Hotels, Georgia
Comfort Inn Darien 2 Stars Hotel in Darien, Georgia Within US Travel Directory The Comfort Inn hotel is located near Sapelo Island and Fort King George Historical Site, Georgia's oldest historical fort.
This hotel is within walking distance from Georgia Outlet Factory Shops.
St.
Simons Island, Jekyll Island and Sea Island are 32.
2 km from the hotel.
Enjoy golf at Coastal Pines Golf Club and the Sapelo Hammock Golf Course, or visit lady luck at the Emerald Princess Dinner and Casino Cruise Ship.
Guests of this hotel are provided with many amenities, including Free high-speed Internet access in all rooms, Free local calls, Free weekday newspaper, Free coffee and Free breakfast, the seasonal outdoor pool and access to fax services.
Allguest rooms include refrigerators, microwaves and cable television with premium channels.
Non-smoking rooms are available.
Pets are welcome with a nightly fee.
There is a newsstand located on the property for guest convenience.
Comfort Inn Darien - Darien Hotels, Georgia
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Bird's Eye View of the Georgia Coastline
This video was filmed in an area known as Shellman Bluff.
Shellman Bluff is a peaceful, picturesque fish camp village that retains its distinctive charm. Quaint, screened fishing cottages sit back among oaks festooned with Spanish moss. All the dirt roads of the quiet village seem to lead inevitably to the high bluff that overlooks the Broro and Julienton rivers. Winding along the edge of the high bluff is another sandy road that offers one of the best coastal views in Georgia. In the morning, the sun rises from behind Harris Neck, lighting the green marsh and dappling the tidal rivers while birds roost in distant hammock islands.
Shellman Bluff was the location of Shellman Plantation, operated by William Cooke until his death in 1861. South of Shellman Bluff is Sutherland Bluff, the scene of Revolutionary War shipbuilding activity and the antebellum Brailsford Plantation. Today, it is Sutherland Bluff Plantation, a community overlooking the river and Sapelo Hammock Golf Club.
Gullah Geechee Heritage Tour: Remembering the Culture January 17-19, 2014
UNESCO-TST, JGGCDC and SPOHP have co-organized in providing participants an opportunity to visit national monuments, to learn the history of rice production, to understand legal terms such as regulatory agency, become acquainted with Gullah Geechee cultural expressions and explore the Legacy of the Gullah Geechee Culture on the Highway 17 Corridor from Jacksonville, Florida to Charleston, South Carolina. These tours will continue to confirm that people of African heritage retained their cultural identity through families, religion, music, spoken words, labor, crafts and cuisines. These tours are active exchanges promoting and sustaining a focus on Gullah Geechee history. Who Knows You May be Gullah Geechee and Don't Know It!
UNESCO-TST
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization - Transatlantic Slave Trade (UNESCO-TST) Education Project, links three regions which were involved in the triangular Transatlantic Slave Trade (Africa, the Americas and Europe). The goal of the TST is to increase awareness of the causes and consequences of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - including modern forms of slavery and racism - through educational exchanges, sharing best practice and developing and diffusing educational material.
JGGCDC
The Jacksonville Gullah Geechee Community Development is a domestic corporation registered in the State of Florida for the purpose of serving Gullah Geechee descendants domiciled within the State of Florida and serve as a support arm for the United States National Park Service, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Additionally, the corporation is responsible for the dissemination of historical information about the African Diaspora and the migration of blacks in the New World.
SPOHP
The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program is dedicated to gathering, preserving, and promoting living memories for current and future generations. As a leading repository of oral histories in Florida and elsewhere in the South, the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program strives to educate, research, and serve North Central Florida by collecting many voices of its community.
Special Tour Guide Adventures
Tour 1 - Sapelo Island GA, by ferry boat, tour guide, Mr. R.J. Grovner
Tour 2 - Gullah Heritage Trail, Hilton Head, SC, tour guide, Mr. E. Campbell
Tour 3 - Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, SC, by ferry boat, tour guide, Ms. Olivia Williams, NPS
Tour 4 - Old Slave Mart Museum, Charleston, SC, tour guide, Ms. Christine Mitchell
Tour 5 - First African Baptist Church, Savannah, GA, tour guide, Mr. Jamal
Tour 6 - African American Tour, Savannah, GA, tour guide, Mr. Jamal
Historic Monuments & Sites
*R.J. Reynolds House & Estate, Sapelo Island, GA
*The Light House, Sapelo, Island, GA
*Post Office, Sapelo Island, GA
*Behavior Cemetery, Sapelo Island, GA
*Hog Hammock Community, Sapelo Island, GA
*Sapelo Island Cultural and Revitalization Society, Sapelo Island, GA
*UNESCO-TST & JGGCDC Planting Ceremony of a Japanese Plum tree, Sapelo Island, GA
*African American Gullah Geechee Community, Hilton Head, SC
*Coastal Discovery Museum, Hilton Head, SC
*Fort Sumter National Monument, Red Bricks made by Slaves, Charleston Harbor, SC
*Fort Sumter National Monument, Canons, Charleston Harbor, SC
*Art of Jonathan Green, at Gullah Cuisine, Mt. Pleasant, SC
*Old Slave Mart Museum, Slave Holding Pen, Charleston, SC
*Haitian Monument, Franklin Square, Savannah, GA
*Slave Holding Pen, 2nd Street, Savannah, GA
*African American Family of Four Monument, Savannah, GA
Gullah Geechee Cuisines
*Grovner's Cuisine, Sapelo Island, GA
*Alice & Ike's Hot Chicken and Fish Restaurant, Charleston, SC
*Gullah Cuisine Charlotte Jenkins, Mt. Pleasant, SC
*Garden of Eden Restaurant, Savannah, GA
Sea Island, Georgia
Sea Island is an unincorporated area of Glynn County, Georgia, and is part of the Golden Isles of Georgia, including Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Little St. Simons Island. The seaside island is located along the Atlantic Coast near Historic Brunswick, and is a well-visited resort island. Sea Island Acquisitions, LLC owns the island, operating two resorts, limiting most public access. The island sits about 60 miles north of Jacksonville, FL and about 60 miles south of Savannah, GA. The surrounding marshland, through which visitors are able to drive, was immortalized in 'The Marshes of Glynn' by Sidney Lanier in 1878.
Sea Island houses three well-visited resorts, the Sea Island Beach Club, The Cloister, and The Lodge each operated by Sea Island Acquisitions. The Beach Club and the Cloister are located across the street from one another, connected by a roundabout in the middle of Sea Island Dr., Sea Island's main connecting road. The Beach Club lies by the ocean-side, providing visitors who sit on the beach with accommodations and access to pool areas. The resort contains restaurants, a game room, an ice cream shop, a bar, and two pools. The Cloister sits south-west on the island along the Black Banks River and functions as the main hotel of the resort island, containing restaurants, several hotel rooms, a spa, tennis and squash courts, an exercise facility, and is home to the only Forbes Five Star restaurant in the state of Georgia, The Georgian Room. Sea Island Acquisitions also owns property on St. Simon's Island, including a shooting school, and three other golf courses.The Lodge, commonly referred to as The Golfer's Paradise is located on St. Simons Island and is the home of two of three golf courses the company owns, Plantation and Seaside. The third golf course is located at the residential community Sea Island owns known as Retreat. The Lodge has been host to the newly formed golf tournament The McGladery Classic, for the past five years.
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Shannon Primm, Athens Music Project
AMP-001. Shannon Primm interviewed by Joanna Smolko. November 25, 2014. Athens, Georgia.
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Sarah Ross, Georgia Environmental Oral History Project
Sarah Ross interviewed by Christian Lopez, February 20, 2016, at the Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah, Georgia.
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2018 Update on the Bilbo Mound - The Lost Civilization Beneath Savannah Georgia
EVER HEARD OF THE BILBO MOUND?
Posted by Richard Thornton
It appears to be the oldest mound in North America and contained some of the oldest pottery in North America. It slipped under the radar because of when it was excavated and a “Naw, that couldn’t be right” . . . 30 years later. You will never guess what all this has to do with the game of golf!
Again, special thanks to retired College of Charleston professor, Gene Waddell, who donated an out of print book, published by Harvard University, which provided us this fascinating information. Bilbo is the name of a type of Renaissance Era sword, manufactured in Portugal.
Between 1937 and 1941, archaeologist Joseph Caldwell led a team of graduate students and WPA- funded team of 100 African American women that excavated Native American mound sites across the landscape of the Savannah, GA area. Most of their time was spent on Irene Island, where there had once been a royal compound and very unusual mound. Irene Island was designated to be completely destroyed in order to expand the Port of Savannah. Irene was probably the site of the capital of Chicora. *
Near the tail end of the project, when the United States government was preparing for war with Germany, Caldwell spent a few days at an inconspicuous mound just east of downtown that he called the Bilbo Mound. The mound was originally built inside a round pond by adding more and more thin layers of dirt to the center. By the time, that British colonists arrived in 1733, the pond had become a swamp.
About all Caldwell’s team found were crude, fiber-tempered potsherds, greatly decomposed skeletons and some stone tools associated with fishing. It was assumed that the pottery was merely a later offshoot of Stallings Island pottery and was called Bilbo Pottery. At the time, there was no radiocarbon dating, so the collection of Bilbo artifacts were boxed and generally forgotten.
In 1957, archaeologist William Haag from Louisiana State University became interested in the Bilbo artifacts after Humble Oil Exploration Company began drilling a test hole near the archaeological site in search of petroleum. He dug some test pits to determine the chronology of the artifacts unearthed by Caldwell. There was no pottery below a level dated at 1,870 BC. Halfway down to the base from there was dated at 2,165 BC. The base of the mound was dated at 3,540 BC.
William Haag’s peers in the archaeology profession scoffed at his findings and they were ignored by professional journals. The archaeologists knew “for a fact” that the oldest pottery in North America had to be in Ohio and at that time, the earliest known Hopewell pottery had been dated at about 100-200 AD.
In 1977, the Peabody Museum of Harvard University published the professional papers of Savannah archaeologist, Antonio Waring. The editor, Stephen Williams, did include a mention of Haag’s radiocarbon dates, but added a note that they were impossible because it would mean that mound building began in North America 3,000 years before pottery making. At the time, no one had thoroughly studied the ancient pottery coming out of eastern Georgia and southern South Carolina.
In 1993, the University of Georgia’s Department of Anthropology published a book on the archaeology of the Georgia Coast. It briefly mentioned the Bilbo Mound and said that the mound was begun around 1,700 BC . . . 1,840 years later than Haag’s number.
In 1998, the initial construction of earthworks at Watson Brake, Louisiana was dated to about 3,400 BC. All references now state that Watson Brake is the oldest known mound in North America. Everyone has completely forgotten the Bilbo Mound because their predecessors assumed that it couldn’t be true in 1957.
In 1999, radiocarbon dates were obtained for Stallings Island potsherds excavated from Stallings Island, GA, on the Savannah River near Augusta. They were determined to date from about 2,200 BC or earlier. Stallings Island pottery from other sites on the Savannah have been found to date from at least 2,400 BC and possibly 2,800 BC. So in the 21st century academicians suddenly believed that Bilbo pottery was as old as Professor Haag said it was, but seem to have no clue that his much older dates for the actual construction of the original mound were intentionally left out of the books 58 years ago.
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The Golden Coast | Georgia Outdoors
On this episode of Georgia Outdoors; Georgia’s golden coast was named for its beautiful saltwater marsh sunsets. This show highlights Georgia’s major barrier islands and how each is unique and unforgettable to those who live, work, and visit them. They are also crucial for the success of migratory species, some that travel many thousands of miles for an opportunity to rest and reproduce on our shores.
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