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Chesser Island Homestead

Folkston, GA

A preserved homestead inside Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge shows how families lived on sandy islands surrounded by swamp. The house, outbuildings and demonstrations provide a human-scale counterpoint to the huge wetland around it.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: fws.gov/refuge/okefenokee/visit-us

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