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 Gascoigne Bluff - GHM 063-13 Posted by:  Lat34North
N 31° 10.027 W 081° 24.608
17R E 460914 N 3448195
Throughout the ages Gascoigne Bluff has been the gateway to St. Simons Island. This marker is located in the small park at the south end of Arthur J. Moore Rd.
Waymark Code: WMGN9H
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
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Gascoigne Bluff
Throughout the ages Gascoigne Bluff has been the gateway to St. Simons Island. An Indian village was located here. Capt. James Gascoigne of HM Sloop-of-was, HAWK, which convoyed the Frederica settlers on their voyage across the Atlantic in 1736, established headquarters for Georgia´s naval forces and had his plantation here. In the invasion of 1742 the Spaniards landed at this Bluff.
Live oak timbers for the building of USS CONSTITUTION, better known as ´OLD IRONSIDES.´ and the other vessels of our first US Navy were cut on St. SImons and loaded here in 1794 for shipment North where vessels were built.
During the Plantation Era these lands became the sea island cotton plantation of James Hamilton. A wharf here was the shipping center for the St. Simons plantations.
1874- 1902 this Bluff was lined with great mills, where cypress and long leaf yellow pine timbers were sawed into lumber and shipped to all parts of the world.
The causeway built in 1924, connecting St. Simons with the mainland, has its terminus here.
In 1949 the Methodist Church acquired the upper part of the Bluff and established EPWORTH-BY-THE-SEA as a Conference Center.
GHM 063-13 Georgia Historical Commission 1956
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: GHM 063-13
Date: 1956
Sponsor: Georgia Historical Commission
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