Trip North - Skidaway Island - Wormsloe Historic Site

 We have been to Savannah before and going into town on a weekday during a pandemic doesn't seem fun so we head to Wormsloe Historic Site instead.

First we drive through the historic riverside village Isle of Hope along Bluff Drive

My favorite

This one is for sale

After window shopping we head to the Historic Site. 

Around 1737 James Jones began building a fortified Tabby House overlooking the water.   When his Grandson Wymberly Jones De Renne  took over the estate erected this Arch to commemorate the coming of age of his son, Wymberly Wormsloe De Renne

The entry road planted with 400 oaks was done to commemorate his birth

It is a nice walk to the Tabby Ruins

The original Tabby house was surrounded by 8' walls to protect the family from attacks by the Spanish and Indian Allies.

 

 

Construction of the house took almost 6 years and 8,000 bushels each of lime, sand, oyster shells and water to make the Tabby

View of Jones' Narrows the main waterway for ships passing through the area

Jones and his wife were buried here in 1775
 

We continue on to the Colonial Life area

The boys take a break

Blacksmith

Servants Quarters

A nice day.  Tomorrow - Charelston