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Photo taken by SCHC 232 class, Spring 2022
The Chimneys mark the site of Robert Stafford's Sea Island Cotton plantation.
This painting is a rendering of the structures that the enslaved peoples would have lived in until the end of the Civil War.
All that remains of the original plantation are 24 chimneys from Robert Stafford's slave quarters. Experts at the park believe that after the Civil War, the recently emancipated freedmen were allowed to dismantle and move the wood from the structures as they were forced to leave Stafford's land.
Click through the image below to take a 360 degree tour of the Chimneys on Cumberland Island.
"When he saw the chimneys up at Stafford, it really disturbed him. [...] It was something that he could really feel.”
"When he saw the chimneys up at Stafford, it really disturbed him. [...] It was something that he could really feel.”
- Ola Rockefeller, 1995
- Ola Rockefeller, 1995
Taken by SCHC 232 class, Spring 2022
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