Guest post this week by Annette, the Admiral.
Plum Orchard – a Carnegie $10,000 “starter” home. Lucy Carnegie’s 19 year old daughter-in-law thought it was too small and spent an additional $50,000 to enlarge it.
The house is six feet above sea level. Vents in the foundation allowed rising sea water into the foundation where it was funneled it out through this trough to the river.
Indoor heated pool 9’ deep
This is the first Black church in the Settlement started by Cumberland Island freed slaves. It also was where John F. Kennedy Jr. was married.
Dungeness – Lucy Carnegie’s home
From the Dungeness cemetery. Harry Lighthorse Lee, a VA civil war hero, died in GA. VA stole his body back and left this stone.
Could you go here on your boat? We may have to try it on our way back north in the spring. Looks wonderful!