The Jekyll Island cottage colony
By: June Hall McCash.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Historic buildings -- Georgia -- Jekyll Island.; Dwellings -- Georgia -- Jekyll Island.; Architecture, Domestic -- Georgia -- Jekyll Island.; Jekyll Island (Ga.) -- Social life and customs.; Jekyll Island (Ga.) -- Biography.
Description: During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge in the Golden Isles was the perfect winter getaway for the wealthy new industrial class of the snowbound North.

In this new book, June Hall McCash focuses on the social club's members and the "cottages" they built near the clubhouse between 1888 and 1928. Illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published photographs from private family collections, The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony tells the stories of each home, the owners' connections with the island, and the residents' interactions with one another.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-304) and index.