The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-14
WESTERNER BUYS
SAPELO ISLAND
DEAL is SAID TO INVOLVE ABOUT
TWO HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS.
Il. E. Coffin Purchases the Island, Con-
sistins of $4,000 Acres. and Win
Establish Winter Home and Gunner
Preserve.

Sarelo island, located midway he
'"een brunswick and Savannah on
the inside water route, has Just been
sold to H. L. Coffin, westerner. who
intends to establish winter home
on he island. The Savannah News
OF yesterday contained the following
about the sale:
folIoWlng quiet negotiations which
nave been conducted for the last two
months, 4Sapelo island, containing over.
zo'0Vo acres of high land and marsh
eS, and one of the most historic and
beautiful islands on the South Allan.
&c coast has been purchased by H.
L. Comm of Detroit, for a winter home
and cunning preserve, at a cost said
to be over 100000.
men the final deal was closed YES.
tefday by Frank Whitney and C. T.
Hunter of this city, purchasing the
l~st barcel Of land necessary to ac-
qulre the whole for their client. the
islaha again came under one owner
snip for the first time in over $50
years. Once the finest plantation in
the South, and the very home of ssa
island cotton, it is stepped in his
tCiical romance and rich in its NAT
tral resources.
MI. Coffin was in Savannah to he
PRESENT when the final nail was driy-
en- through which he acquires a veri-
taoie PARADISE, blessed with exquisite
natural beauty, needing only the hand
OF man to transform it into one of
'he most delightful spots on earth.
The purchaser will be particular not
10 interfere with the rustic natural
beauties of the place, but will with
Cls1s, PUT finishing touches around the
the aid of experienced landscape or
beautiful plantation home now locat-
ed on its south end that it may be
made Of additional beauty where he
can elaborately entertain his western
friends. The purchaser is vice rresi-
dent and consulting engineer of the
hudson Motor Car company. of De-
troit; past president Of the American
society Of Automobile engineers, and
Is one Of the best known men in the |
motor car industry.
Will Be Winter Home.
In an interview with Mr.. Coffin he
stated it was his intention to make
the island his winter home, gradually
developing the great natural resources
Of which the sea islands are famous
and setting aside the north end Of the
tract, comprising about ten thousand
acres for a game preserve. Regard
ing the price he paid he eyaded the
qeu5Jlon by saying: 1t is easy to
Judge what | paid for it in view Of
the Prevailing PRICES Of Georgia land
IN that section of the state, which are
gen orally known"
Until the present, the tract has
been owned in five large sections, and
as many smaller sections. Each of the
owners have decided in fee simple ti-
tie, thus reuniting the fragments of
the once splendid estate that was
owned by the celebrated Marquis de
MonJelet.
The island has a complete system
Of drainage canals both main and
lateral, laid out in accordance with
the best engineering practice and cdt,=
at tremendous expenditure OF slave.
labor. 1t has an elevation at places
of forty feet above sea level.
Was Pirate Kings Haunt
& SaDelO lies about FIVE miles OF tDa
mainland of Mcintosh county, and
about forty miles south of Savannah.
It is adjacent to the government res
erration of Blackboard island, and it
was in the waters of this island tha,
the famous pirate Blackboard har-
bored his shirs at times. Stories OF
buried treasures have brought many
searching parties and the rrequenr
finding Of Spanish coins revive anew
the legends Of the CID Sea Rover.
Both SapelO and Blackboard islands
are heavily wooded and small game :
and deer are plentiful. The adjacent
waters are alive with fish ana fowl s
in season, and the salt waters and i
creeks abound in oysters. The Smith
sonian institute has spent consider I
able time investigating the ruins of {
the old Indian fort on Sapelo and op- {
ening the numerous Indian mounds, I
from which have been taken articles i
and Eieroglyphics telling much Of the :
life Of the prehistoric aeople who held 8
the island before the coming of the :
Indians. ,
Was Owned by Creeks +
In 1873, the Creek Indians BY treaty
with General Oglethorpe ceded lands
and islands to the English, bit res
served to themselves the island of
Sapelo. In 1880 King George, Third,
acquired the island by purchase from
the Rev Thomas Bosomworth, a mis-