Accompanied by Jonathan Bryan, a planter with an insatiable appetite for virgin tracts of land, Georgia's third and last Royal Governor James Wright visited Buttermilk Bluff in June 1767 and envisioned a city. St. Marys was born, and its street names reflect the surnames of the 20 founding fathers. While the county seat was removed from a quaint St. Marys on more than one occasion, today, the garden spot of Woodbine serves as the seat of county government. Formerly the rice plantation of J.K. Bedell, this small city shares a symbiotic relationship with port of St. Marys and the "City of Royal Treatment" at Kingsland. The history of the county, with its three main towns as well as the outlying, rural areas, unfolds in striking photographs from days gone by. Preserved within the pages of this treasured volume, images reveal Camden and its people in times of tragedy and triumph.
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Bounded on the north by the Little Satilla River from neighboring Glynn County and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Camden County's southern boundary at the St. Marys River separates Georgia from Florida. Dating from a 1766 land grant, port of St. Marys and Camden County have faced a challenging past, present, and future. Camden's growth and development have been driven by businessmen, adventurers and opportunists, determined "wild swamp Crackers," and hardy, self-reliant, God-fearing men and women.
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Coastal Georgia native Patricia Barefoot's first title in the Images of America series, Brunswick: The City by the Sea, received wide popular support. She holds a lifelong curiosity for Camden's awesome swamplands, the Old Post Road, and the region's flora and fauna as described by Quaker naturalist Will Bartram. Barefoot's deep, abiding interest in the richness of coastal history shines forth in her exploration and celebration of Camden's proud heritage.
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Prior to its colonial parish beginnings in 1758, the heavily wooded forests and swamplands of Camden sustained the Native Americans of the Southeast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Camden County, Courtesy of Eloise Bailey Thompson, Satilla River, Courtesy of Rodney Sheffield, Cumberland Island, Courtesy of Bryan-Lang Historical Library, Marys River, World War, Burwell Atkinson, Kings Bay, Marys Railroad, The Southeast Georgian, Courtesy of the Author, Island Grove, North Carolina, Satilla Bluff, Uncle London, White Oak, American Civil War, Bedell Avenue, Courtesy of Daniel Peeples, Courtesy of Shirley Joiner Thompson, John Clark Buie, Naval Submarine Base, Presbyterian Church New!
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Prior to its colonial parish beginnings in 1758, the heavily wooded forests and swamplands of Camden sustained the Native Americans of the Southeast. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Camden County, Courtesy of Eloise Bailey Thompson, Satilla River, Courtesy of Rodney Sheffield, Cumberland Island, Courtesy of Bryan-Lang Historical Library, Marys River, World War, Burwell Atkinson, Kings Bay, Marys Railroad, The Southeast Georgian, Courtesy of the Author, Island Grove, North Carolina, Satilla Bluff, Uncle London, White Oak, American Civil War, Bedell Avenue, Courtesy of Daniel Peeples, Courtesy of Shirley Joiner Thompson, John Clark Buie, Naval Submarine Base, Presbyterian Church New!
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- Cumberland Island (GA) (Images of America) by Patricia Barefoot in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Remember Wen? by Rodney A Foster on page 111, and Back Matter
- South Carolina (Portrait of America) by Kathleen Thompson on page 54
- American Civil War (Wars That Changed the World) by Philip Clark on page 87
- Native Americans (Nature Company Discoveries Libraries) by Judith Simpson on page 9
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