Historical Marker

<i>The Wanderer</i> — Timeline

Jekyll Island · Glynn County

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The Story

This timeline traces the Wanderer from its 1857 launch as a luxury yacht through its conversion into a slave ship, charting how a pleasure craft became the instrument of one of the last illegal landings of enslaved Africans on American soil.

About this site

<i>The Wanderer</i> — Timeline is a historical marker in Jekyll Island, Glynn County. 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 31.0214, -81.4340 near Jekyll Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is <i>The Wanderer</i> — Timeline: Continued (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include <i>The Wanderer</i> — Cilucangy: Ward Lee, <i>The Wanderer</i> — What Happened to the Survivors: Their Stories, and <i>The Wanderer</i> — Built For Speed.

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

📍 31.0214, -81.4340 · Jekyll Island, Glynn County
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