Dungeness: Landscape Management Plan, Cumberland Island National Seashore, National Park Service
Zeichner LL. 1988. Dungeness: Landscape Management Plan, Cumberland Island National Seashore, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Management Plans. National Park Service Cooperative Unit Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
The purpose of this thesis is to develop a landscape management plan for the Dungeness historic district. Dungeness historic district is located within Cumberland Island National Seashore (CUIS). Cumberland Island is the largest and southernmost of Georgia’s barrier islands. This, approximately 250 acre, historic district has been the location of prehistoric Indian settlement, 17th century Spanish occupation, an antebellum Sea Island cotton plantation owned by Revolutionary war hero General Nathaniel Greene and his heirs, and a late 19th century- early 20th century country estate owned by Thomas and Lucy Carnegie. This site is a composite landscape, with elements representing several time periods overlaid on upon another. The result I like a palimpsest, with remnants of earlier periods still visible within the framework of the existing landscape. Dungeness is an important historic landscape resource.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Zeichner, Lauren
- Date of Issue
- 1988-03
- Publisher
- National Park Service Cooperative Unit Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia
- Units
- CUIS , SER
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Catherine Greene Miller, Cotton Plantation, Dungeness Mansion, Eli Whitney, General Nathaniel Greene, Georgia, Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Italianate style, Livestock, Native American, orchards, Ruin, Spanish Settlement, Thomas Carnegie