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Tabby ruins at Chocolate on the northwest side of the island

Description

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.

Credit

Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve

Photographer

Brooke Vallaster

Display Date

1999 August

Location

Georgia, Sapelo Island

Collection

America's Coastlines
Southeast

NOAA Affiliation

Education Coordinator