Silk Culture at Ebenezer

The Salzburgers became Georgia's most successful silk makers. Starting in 1736 with mulberry trees and reeling lessons, by the 1770s little Ebenezer outproduced Savannah itself, until the Revolution ended the trade for good.

Silk Culture at Ebenezer is a historical marker in Rincon, Effingham County, erected in 1957. It is one of 31 historical markers documented in Effingham County, among 81 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 32.3766, -81.1816 near Rincon. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Town of Ebenezer (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include John Adam Treutlen, Site of First Orphanage in Georgia 1738, and The Rev. John Martin Bolzius / The Rev. Israel Christian Gronau.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.