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Following the tabby trail, where coastal history is captured in unique oyster-shell structures, Jingle Davis ; photographs by Benjamin Galland

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Following the tabby trail

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Jingle Davis ; photographs by Benjamin Galland

where coastal history is captured in unique oyster-shell structures

"Following the Tabby Trail provides a guided tour of some of the most significant tabby structures found along the southeastern coast and includes more than two hundred illustrations that highlight the human and architectural histories of forty-eight specific sites. Jingle Davis explains how tabby - a unique oyster-shell concrete - helps us to understand the complex past of the coast. A tabby structure is, as the author puts it, "a storehouse of history." Each of the site descriptions includes the intriguing profile of a historic figure associated in some way with the tabby. Though the first documented use of tabby in North America was in 1672 in what is now St. Augustine, Florida, Spanish colonists had used many of its constituent parts a century earlier. In addition to their Spanish-speaking competitors, colonizers from France and the British Isles also enthusiastically adopted the building material for their colonial missions. This meant, of course, that enslaved Africans and Indigenous peoples built with the material. Tabby remained a fashionable, effective, and enduring building material until shortly after the Civil War. This richly photographed work provides readers with a guide to the underexplored string of tabby structures still standing along the stretch of coast between Florida and South Carolina, an approximately 275-mile trail traced by the book from just south of St. Augustine north to the dead town of Dorchester near Summerville. Sites include such varied structures as ancient Late Archaic shell mounds called middens and rings of shells thousands of years old. Fort Matanzas, built in 1742 but named for a sixteenth-century massacre of French colonists by St. Augustine's Spanish founder Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. Fort Mose, a significant feature of Florida's Black Heritage Trail, and homes of the enslaved, warehouses, Charleston's seawall, churches, and cemeteries"--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, pt. I, Florida, ch. 1, St. Augustine, Site 1, Fort Matanzas / Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Site 2, Gonzalez-Alvarez (Oldest) House / Mary (Maria) Evans Peavett, Site 3, Fernandez-Llambias House / Father Pedro Camps, Site e 4, Father Miguel O'Reilly House Museum [short take], Site 5, Flagler Tabby [short take], Site 6, Castillo de San Marcos / Chato, Site 7, Fort Mose Historic State Park / Francisco Menendez, ch. 2, Fort George Island Cultural State Park, Site 8, Kingsley Plantation / Anta Madgigine Jai Kingsley, Site 9, Thomson House [short take], pt. II, Georgia, ch. 3, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Site 10, Dungeness I and II / Catherine (Caty) Littlefield Greene, Site 11, Miller-Greene House [short take], ch. 4, St. Marys, Kingsland, and Woodbine, Site 12, McIntosh Sugar Works / James Houstoun McIntosh, Site 13, St. Mark's Episcopal Church [short take], ch. 5, Jekyll Island State Park, Site 14, Horton House / Major William Horton, Site 15, Hollybourne Cottage / Charles Stewart Maurice, Site 16, Dairy Silo [short take], ch. 6, St. Simons Island, Site 17, Hamilton Plantation Slave Cabins /James Hamilton, Site 18, Retreat Plantation Slave Cabin / Anna Matilda Page King, Site 19, Fort Frederica / James Edward Oglethorpe, Site 20, Cannon's Point Plantation / John Couper, Site 21, Hampton Plantation / Fanny Kemble Butler, ch. 7, Brunswick, Site 22, St. Athanasius Protestant Episcopal Church [short take], Site 23, Hopeton Plantation Sugar Mill / James Hamilton Couper, ch. 8, Darien, Site 24, Waterfront Warehouses and Adam-Strain Building [short take], Site 25, St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church / Anna Alexander, Site 26, Ashantilly / William Greaner Haynes Jr., Site 27, The Thicket Sugar Mill and Rum Distillery / Mary Letitia Ross, ch. 9, Sapelo Island, Site 28, Chocolate Plantation / Bilali Muhammad, Site 29, South End House / Thomas Spalding, ch. 10, Savannah, Site 30, Wormsloe State Historic Site / Noble Jones, Site 31, Fort Pulaski National Monument [short take], Site 32, Owens-Thomas House / William Jay, pt. III, South Carolina, ch. 11, Hilton Head Island, Site 33, Stoney-Baynard Plantation / Quarters for the Enslaved, ch. 12, St. Helena Island, Site 34, St. Helena Chapel of Ease Ruins, ch. 13, Port Royal, Site 35, Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve / Susie Baker King Taylor, ch. 14, Parris Island, Site 36, Charlesfort-Santa Elena Site / Jean Ribault, ch. 15, Beaufort, Site 37, Seawall [short take], Site 38, Arsenal [short take], Site 39, John Mark Verdier House / Robert Smalls, Site 40, Parish Church at St. Helena / St. Helena Cemetery, Site 41, Barnwell-Gough House / Esther Hawks, Site 42, Saltus-Habersham House [short take], Site 43, Old Baptist Meeting House (Baptist Church of Beaufort) / The Reverend Richard Fuller, Site 44, Tabby Manse (Thomas Fuller House) [short take], ch. 16, Edisto Island, Site 45, Tabby Outbuildings at Botany Bay Plantation / Oqui, Site 46, First Missionary Baptist Church / Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend, ch. 17, Charleston, Site 47, Horn Work [short take], ch. 18, Dorchester, Site 48, Fort / Francis Marion