Inside America's INTREPID Cumberland Island (History & Mystery)

Not only the mystery of wild horses on Cumberland Island but also a deep American history. Best of all? Cumberland Island is open to the public, I highly recommend you book a trip!

While hiking towards the historic Dungeness Abandoned Mansion, you'll find plenty of American coastal history, breathtaking Maritime forest, Sand Dunes, Driftwood Dunes, Salt Marshes, revolutionary war hero General Nathaniel Green's old home, the best old-growth ecosystem I've ever seen on the Nightingale trail, massive old trees, beach on the Atlantic Ocean, and a bunch of wildlife including, crabs, starfish, wading birds, feral wild horses, and raccoons.

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Cumberland Island, in the southeastern United States, is the largest of the Sea Islands of Georgia. The long-staple Sea Island cotton was first grown here by a local family, the Millers, who helped Eli Whitney develop the cotton gin. With its unusual range of wildlife, the island has been declared a National Seashore. Little Cumberland Island is connected to the main island by a marsh.

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. Oglethorpe named the place after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.[2] Dungeness was next the legacy of Revolutionary War hero Nathanael Greene, who had acquired 11,000 acres of island land in exchange for a bad debt.

Dungeness Ruins
In 1818 Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, a cavalry commander during the Revolutionary War and father of Robert E. Lee, stayed at the house until his death on March 25, 1818, cared for by Greene's daughter Louisa, and was laid to rest in nearby cemetery with full military honors provided by an American fleet stationed at St. Marys, Georgia.[3] The house was abandoned during the U.S. Civil War and burned in 1866.

In the 1880s the property was purchased by Thomas M. Carnegie, brother of Andrew Carnegie, who began to build a new mansion on the site. The 59-room Queen Anne style mansion and grounds were completed after Carnegie's death in 1886. His wife Lucy continued to live at Dungeness and built other estates for her children, including Greyfield for Margaret Carnegie Ricketson, Plum Orchard for George Lauder Carnegie, and Stafford Plantation. By this time, the Carnegies owned 90% of the island.

The main house includes servant's quarters, utility buildings, laundries, cisterns, and a variety of other structures. The district forms a planned, landscaped ensemble. The most significant supporting structure is the Tabby House or Nathanael Greene Cottage, which dates to the Greene family's tenure.

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Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Heading There
1:16 - Cumberland Island
2:15 - Nightingale Trail (Coastal Old Growth Jungle)
3:26 - Sand Dunes
4:29 - Deserted Beach
5:49 - Cumberland History
6:58 - Boardwalk Trail
7:20 - Driftwood Dunes
7:55 - Salt Marsh & Wetlands
8:56 - Wild Horses
9:33 - Mystery of the Feral Horses
10:25 - Ruins of Famous Americans & American History
11:42 - Ruins of the Historic Community
11:59 - Possibly the Whopping Willow
12:30 - Hiking the Final Path
13:31 - Dungeness Mansion & History
15:37 - Cumberland Island Quick Summary