Le Sieur Christophe Anne Poulain du Bignon

Christophe Poulain du Bignon, a French naval captain who fled the Revolution, became sole owner of Jekyll Island in the 1790s and built a Sea Island cotton plantation his family held until 1886.

Le Sieur Christophe Anne Poulain du Bignon is a historical marker in Jekyll 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 31.1019, -81.4155 near Jekyll Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is DuBignon Cemetery (cemetery), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Poulain du Bignon and du Bignon Burying Ground, Tabby, and Major William Horton.

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