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![Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island line0928.jpg Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island](/sites/default/files/styles/max_1300x1300/https/s3.amazonaws.com/s3-east-testmedia-noaa.woc.noaa.gov/dam/Photos/legacy/pl23_line0928.jpg?itok=H7a9IVNB)
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Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island. Tabby refers to the building material which is adurable cement-like mixture of equal parts of water, sand, shell, and lime. These ruins are part of an antebellum plantation that was deserted following theCivil War. (Image credit: Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve | Brooke Vallaster)