  Creighton Island | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Coordinates | 31°31′16.79″N81°19′28.34″W / 31.5213306°N 81.3245389°W |
| Administration | |
United States | |
| State | Georgia |
| County | McIntosh County |
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Creighton Island is a privately owned, barrier island in McIntosh County, Georgia. The island received its name from Alexander Creighton, a businessman from Savannah, Georgia, who owned the island in 1778.
In 1756, Daniel Demetre had acquired the island that was then known as John Smith's Island. During the 1770s, William DeBrahm, a Surveyor General to King George III, noted the existence of entrenchments and ruins on the Island that could not be explained. The mysteries have lingered to this day. [1]
The island in its earliest days of Colonial America was used for timbering and farming such as cotton, sugar cane and corn. In the 1800s Thomas Spaulding worked with William Cooke, who owned the island around 1838. They built Tabby buildings on the northern part of the island, which remains to this day. There were timber-loading facilities for large ships at what was known as "Sapelo port" on the north-end from 1880 to 1898, there was even a post office and telegraph lines that connected the island to Darien. When a hurricane hit in 1898 most of the facilities were destroyed, but were rebuilt by 1910, but at this time the timber boom era in McIntosh County can to an end. The current owners bought the island in 1947. [1]
Today visitors can reserve a visit to hike, hunt, or go fishing. [1] There is even a small grass airstrip located on the southern part of the island for aircraft to land. [2]
A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars usually consider a castle to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. This is distinct from a mansion, palace and villa, whose main purpose was exclusively for pleasance and are not primarily fortresses but may be fortified. Use of the term has varied over time and, sometimes, has also been applied to structures such as hill forts and 19th- and 20th-century homes built to resemble castles. Over the Middle Ages, when genuine castles were built, they took on a great many forms with many different features, although some, such as curtain walls, arrowslits, and portcullises, were commonplace.
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands in the United States of America. Their historical homelands are in what now comprises southern Tennessee, much of Alabama, western Georgia and parts of northern Florida.
McIntosh County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,975, a drop of 23.4 percent since the 2010 census. The county seat is Darien.
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