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Scottish planter John Couper made this northern-tip plantation a famed agricultural laboratory, raising Sea Island cotton alongside olives, dates, and citrus. His tabby mansion burned in 1890, leaving only ruins now sheltered within a nature preserve.
Cannon's Point Plantation is a historical marker in St. Simons Island, Glynn County, erected in 2010. It is one of 121 historical markers documented in Glynn County, among 181 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 31.2534, -81.3524 near St. Simons Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is Hampton Plantation (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Pike's Bluff, Sinclair Plantation, and German Village.
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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