Historical Marker

Cassina Garden Club Houses

St. Simons Island · Glynn County · Erected 1965

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The Story

These two tabby cabins are the last of six that housed enslaved families on Hamilton Plantation before 1865. The Cassina Garden Club has safeguarded them since the 1930s, making them rare surviving quarters of coastal Georgia's plantation labor.

About this site

Cassina Garden Club Houses is a historical marker in St. Simons Island, Glynn County, erected in 1965. 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 31.1710, -81.4074 near St. Simons Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is A Man Named Wesley Passed This Way / Lovely Lane Chapel (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Gascoigne Bluff, Epworth By The Sea / Epworth Pioneers, and Hamilton Plantation.

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

📍 31.1710, -81.4074 · St. Simons Island, Glynn County
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