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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Jingle, author.

Contributor:

Galland, Benjamin, photographer (expression).

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--South Atlantic States--Guidebooks.

Historic buildings.

Concrete construction--South Atlantic States--Guidebooks.

Concrete construction.

Tabby (Concrete).

South Atlantic States--Guidebooks.

South Atlantic States.

United States--South Atlantic States.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Physical Description:

xi, 334 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780820357492

0820357499

OCLC:

1285552977