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Jekyll Island Boat House State Historical Marker
Jekyll Island Club Boat House Site
State Historical Marker
Located near water on Riverview Dr.
at the southern entrance to Jekyll Island Club Historic Site,
Jekyll Island
(Text)
THE BOAT HOUSE SITE
This is the site of the Jekyll
Island Club Boat House where the 100 foot steamer The Jekyll
Island was stored during the off season. (The Club season
was usually from after New Years until before Easter).
There was no Jekyll Creek bridge
(dedicated 1954), no Sidney Lanier bridge (opened 1956) in the
Jekyll Island Club Era. Many Club members entrained to Brunswick
on their plush private railroad cars. There they were met at
the wharf by the steamer The Jekyll Island; The Hattie; The
Sybil (45 foot Naphtha Launch named for Sybil Brewster);
The Kitty (named for Kitty Lawrence, nice of Charles Lanier,
a President of The Club). These launches were used as pleasure
craft at the convenience of the Club members for fishing, excursions,
and to bring supplies and mail from Brunswick.
Other members arrived by yacht
at the dock or, if the craft was too large for the shallow water
there, anchored in the channel and were brought to shore by smaller
craft.
James A. Clark was Captain of Boats
and summer manager of the Jekyll Island Club for over forty years.
- 063-31 GEORGIA HISTORICAL
COMMISSION 1958
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