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Jekyll Island Club Resort’s signature Victorian turret.
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Where History Retreats Itself
At Jekyll Island’s majestic resort, visitors sense the history of its Gilded Age founders around every corner BY ANDY SMITH
ONE FEELS SOMEWHAT ANACHRONISTIC pulling into this particular Georgia driveway in a 2016 Honda Odyssey. The 133-year-old Jekyll Island Club Resort, with its signature Victorian turret, stands in majesty among southern live oaks entwined in Spanish moss. It was once lodging for the Jekyll Island Club, a hunting and recreational group whose members at one point controlled one-sixth of the world’s wealth. Its ledger carried names like Rockefeller,
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