Cumberland Sunrise, Cumberland Island, Georgia
by Dawna Moore Photography
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Cumberland Sunrise, Cumberland Island, Georgia
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Dawna Moore Photography
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Photograph - Nature And Travel Photography
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"For thousands of years the island was
visited cyclically by Timucuan Indians for shellfish. In the 1500s Spanish friars and soldiers, calling the island San Pedro Mocama, built a Catholic mission and a large fort. Sassafras, common to the Sea Islands, was a valuable medicinal shrub sought by Europeans. Cumberland's size and excellent harbor brought about very early trade contacts between Spanish and aboriginal islanders. Between 1765 and 1769 thirteen Georgians received the first land grants on Cumberland. These tracts became the fifteen plantations and small farms cultivated by slave labor during the nineteenth century." (georgiaencyclopedia)
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July 6th, 2017
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