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Jekyll Island Club

Jekyll Island, GA · Golden Isles$$10 per vehicle per day to enter the island

About

From 1886 the Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers and Vanderbilts wintered behind this turreted clubhouse, and in 1910 a few of them slipped onto the island in secret to draft the plan that became the Federal Reserve. The Queen Anne tower, wraparound verandas and croquet lawn still stand at the heart of a 240-acre National Historic Landmark District you can tour on foot or by trolley. Walk the same riverfront path where AT&T placed the first transcontinental phone call in 1915.

Highlights

Getting there

371 Riverview Drive, Jekyll Island, GA 31527

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