What Was Here Before?

This Jekyll Island beachfront once held the Great Dunes golf course, opened in 1928 for the Jekyll Island Club, and later a small amusement park called Peppermint Land, whose rides were wrecked by Hurricane Dora in 1964.

What Was Here Before? 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 31.0472, -81.4107 near Jekyll Island. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Boat House Site (historical marker), about 0.7 miles away. Others within a short drive include M.E. Thompson and the Purchase of Jekyll Island, Rockefeller Cottage, and First Transcontinental Call.

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