Böcker i Wormsloe Foundation Publication-serien

Cumberland Island: A History chronicles five centuries of change to the landscape and its people from the days of the first Native Americans through the late-twentieth-century struggles between developers and conservationists.

This collection of essays grew out of a symposium commemorating the 250th anniversary of the founding of Georgia. The contributors are authorities in their respective fields who shed new light on the social, political, religious, and ethnic diversity of colonial Georgia.

This work focuses on a particular place and time to explore how environment and human culture transform each other. It shows how each successive community on the Georgia coast forged unique relationships with the environment, which in turn created unique landscapes.

Attempts to define what effect the semitropical, hostile border environment of colonial Georgia had on the plantation development scheme of at least one English settler. Kelso's report concludes with a detailed study of the artifacts with illustrations, descriptions, and identifications of the important pieces.

A broad-based coalition of supporters came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-US bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and development. This book is the history of this legislative act, as told by the leader of the coalition, Reid Harris.