- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Tabby historical marker
- Creator:
- Jackson, Edwin L.
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Glynn County
Tabby (Concrete) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Glynn County, 31.21324, -81.4937
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Horton Rd. at the Horton House, Jekyll Island
Text of marker: "TABBY. Tabby was the building material for walls, floors, and roofs widely used throughout coastal Georgia during the Military and Plantation Eras. It was composed of equal parts of sand, lime, oyster shell and water mixed into a mortar and poured into forms. The limed used in tabby was made by burning oyster shell taken from Indian Shell Mounds, the trash piles of the Indians. The word tabby is African in origin, with an Arabic back-ground, and means "a wall made of earth or masonry." This method of building was brought to America by the Spaniards. When the Coquina (shell rock) quarries near St. Augustine were opened, hewn stone superseded tabby for wall construction there. Coastal Georgia has no coquina, so tabby continued to be used here even as late as the 1890's. 063-16 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_tabby
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_tabby
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
