Country Road

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Country Road

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Tom Gari Gallery-Three-Photography

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Photograph - Photography

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A majestic rural avenue, lined on either side by over 400 stately live oak trees, and emerging at the site of Georgia’s oldest plantation.

Wormsloe Plantation, is a state historic site near Savannah, Georgia, in the southeastern United States. The site was once the Wormsloe Plantation, a large estate established by one of Georgia's colonial founders, Noble Jones The site includes a picturesque 1.5-mile oak avenue, the ruins of Jones' fortified house built of tabby (Tabby is a type of concrete made by burning oyster shells to create lime, then mixing it with water, sand, ash and broken oyster shells).
In 1736, Noble Jones obtained a grant for 500 acres of land on the Isle of Hope that would form the core of Wormsloe. He constructed a fortified house on the southeastern tip of the island overlooking the Skidaway Narrows, a strategic section of the Skidaway River located along the intracoastal waterway roughly halfway between downtown Savannah and the Atlantic Ocean. The fortified house was part of a network of defensive structures established by James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, and early Georgia colonists to protect Savannah from a potential Spanish invasion. Jones subsequently developed Wormsloe into a small plantation, and his descendants built a large mansion at the site which they used as a country residence.

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