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Thursday, February 5, 2009

St. Mary's, Georgia





Last spring we took a trip down to St. Mary's in south Georgia. This photo is of the Tabby Sugar Mill Ruins. Tabby is a sort of building material which was used in the southeast by mixing equal parts of lime, water, sand, oyster shells, and ash.
To read more about Tabby, click HERE

18 comments:

  1. I love St. Mary's! My step-mom has a house near there in Kingsland and we always go over to St. Mary's for seafood.

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  2. We saw several examples of tabby construction last year when we were in Savannah and on St. Simons island. We'll have to get to St. Mary's one of these days.

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  3. I didn't know sugar cane was growing so high in the North!

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  4. This was really interesting, Tanya. Enjoyed it. Had never heard of middens before or tabby.

    Di
    The Blue Ridge Gal

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  5. That was very interesting! THanks for the lesson.

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  6. Oyster shells? Really? That's weird - I wonder how they decided to throw in oyster shells? That's funny to think about!

    Anyway, thank you very much for your prayers - I sincerely appreciate all the support from everyone!

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  7. Oh this looks like something I would be interesting in touring..Thanks for sharing.

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  8. Looks like a interesting place to visit, since I just love to "Snoop Around History. Thanks for sharing.

    Stay warm there in VA. It's darn cold up here in PA. About 17 degrees! Brrrr! To darn cold for me. - Les

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  9. Looks like the walls held up good. Are the plantations still there?

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  10. Very interesting material. And I love the ruins, especially the moss growing on the stones.

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  11. Tabby is also my favorite cat color.

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  12. Tanya, I read both the plate inscription in your photo and the article you refered to. Facinating, and enjoyed the photo of the remains of the building. I have never heard of Tabby in this regard, so you have educated me. Thanks for this. - Dave

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  13. Never heard of tabby. Checked the link. Interesting. Obviously very resisitant. (I like to learn something when I blog and now I did again. Thanks!)

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  14. It's good to learn something new everyday! Very interesting!

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  15. Tabby! I've never heard of such material! The closest I know is coral rock as a construction material, like in Stone Town, the capital of Zanzibar, as the island comes from an atol and there was nothing else to built the houses. Unfortunatelly it easily absorbs water on monsoon time and makes the buildings look very degraded, but on the other hand they can become quite charming with time. Well, I like it! :-)

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  16. I love reading about this kind of history in the dailies that gets overlooked elsewhere.

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