Plum Orchard 30.855933°N 81.465238°W is an estate located in the middle of the western shore of Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island

Cumberland Island is one of the Sea Islands. Cumberland is the largest in terms of continuously exposed land area of Georgia's barrier islands. It is located on the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the U.S. state of Georgia and is part of Camden County...

, Georgia

Georgia (U.S. state)

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. The estate and surrounding area are listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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Designed by Peabody and Stearns

Peabody and Stearns

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 for George Lauder Carnegie, it was formally dedicated on October 6, 1898. Peabody and Stearns also designed various additions to the mansion in the several following years, probably in 1906.

After George Lauder Carnegie died, his widow, Margaret Copley Thaw, remarried and moved to Africa. Most of the original furnishings were sold, and furniture from Dungenes were brought in to furnish the house. The house was then occupied by the Johnston family, from Nancy Trovillo Carnegie Heaver/Johnston's branch of the family.

The estate is now part of Cumberland Island National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore preserves most of Cumberland Island in Camden County, Georgia, the largest of Georgia's Golden Isles. The seashore features beaches and dunes, marshes, and freshwater lakes...

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The mansion includes a rare squash tennis

Squash tennis

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 court.

See also

• Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia)
  Dungeness (Cumberland Island, Georgia)
  Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history. James Oglethorpe first built on Cumberland Island in 1736, building a hunting lodge that he named Dungeness...
  
  
• St. Marys, Georgia
  St. Marys, Georgia
  -See also:*Cumberland Island*St. Marys Historic District*St. Marys Railroad-External links:***...
  
  
• St. Marys Historic District
  St. Marys Historic District
  St. Marys Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1976 and is located in St. Marys, Georgia, the second oldest continuously inhabited city in the United States after St. Augustine, Florida. The city was first settled in the mid-16th century by the...
  
  
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Camden County, Georgia

External links

• Plum Orchard at Historic American Building Survey
• Photos from the Historic American Building Survey