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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2008
Caption: Cassina Garden Club Houses and Marker
Additional Description: Hamilton Plantation
Located on St. Simons Island, the remains of this antebellum plantation contain two surviving slave cabins, originally a set of four built before 1833. Among the better surviving slave cabins in the South, they are made of tabby, a cement consisting of lime, water, and crushed oyster shells. The cabins have built-in windows and a central chimney. James Hamilton Couper, namesake of the owner and manager of the plantation, was an architect and a builder. He designed and built the cabins to house the slaves who served in the plantation's main house. Utilizing a duplex plan to house more than one family, the cabins were originally part of a planned community of slave dwellings. (National Park Service)
Submitted: September 27, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p36855
File Size: 0.204 Megabytes

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