This St. Marys history-walk panel points across the water to Cumberland Island, where Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene bought land in 1783; his family built the first Dungeness mansion, later rebuilt by the Carnegies in 1884 and burned in 1959.
Georgia’s Coastal Gem:
The roadside stories worth pulling over for.
Georgia’s Coastal Gem: is a historical marker in St. Marys, Camden County, erected in 2016. It is one of 32 historical markers documented in Camden County, among 70 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 30.7215, -81.5539 near St. Marys. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Enduring Gullah (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The Forgotten Battle’s, The Forgotten Battle, and Industry finds St. Marys:.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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