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308 Hawkins Island Drive

Saint Simons Island

6 br | 6 ba, 3 hba | 6477SF | $3,699,000

This Marshfront custom home has been carefully renovated in 2017-2018 with outstanding architectural details. Hawkins Island is known for spacious, distinct homes with 24 hour security gate for privacy. This extremely well built home speaks of elegance with a traditional style. Whole house generator. This Cottage has a large saline pool and fantastic sunrise views!

Little Raccoon Key

Private Island, Coastal Georgia

40 Acre Island | $774,900

10-min boat ride from neighboring Jekyll Island. An unspoiled and peaceful paradise. Currently thriving as an award-winning Glamping destination featuring a fully furnished glamping camp. Business can be conveyed with sale.

1871 GA HWY 99 - BRUNSWICK, GA

31523

Affectionately known as Laughinghouse Manor, this 3.48 acres of magical property has beautiful massive live oaks. Private gated entrance with brick driveway. Two-Story Farmhouse with double porches. Heart Pine floors, Country Kitchen with gas cooking on a big island where family and friends can sit and enjoy each other's company. Separate Dining room with fireplace, Family Room with fireplace, Sunroom, storage room, or back porch /office area. The wonderful Master suite is downstairs with a full Master bath featuring all white subway tile marble floors and double vanity. Also accessible from the pool area. On the second floor are 3 bedrooms, 3 baths and on the 3rd floor, a huge bedroom suite and sitting room with a TV area. Above the barn, there is a full 800 sq ft apartment with full bath, new a/c, and new septic. This property has all new HVAC, New septic, NEW interior paint, new foundation supports, new well, new exterior lighting, new inside light fixtures, toilets, vanities, ceiling fans, new refrigerator, dishwasher, ice maker, gas stove, some new windows, new fencing on the side yard for pets. Bass added to the pond for fishing! In-ground pool with slide – and kids love it! Total of 6 bedrooms, 6 baths. In 2022, the Manor generated $42,000 in the first 6 months of Airbnb and already has $20,000 booked for this year. Offered at only $1,450,000.

297 MOSS OAK, SEA PALMS, MID ST. SIMONS

Great investment opportunity! Beautifully and completely remodeled condo – ALL NEW EVERYTHING! – with an open living area, dining, kitchen (all new appliances), 2 spacious bedrooms & 2 new tile baths. Electrical outlets have USB chargers builtin. Split bedroom plan for maximized privacy. The sun porch has built-in bunk beds with lights over the beds plus a trundle. This unit easily sleeps 7. This unit is offered fully furnished and has been freshly painted. New HVAC system installed in 2020. You won’t believe your eyes when you step into this remarkable unit. Views of the lagoon and golf course from every room. A Sea Palms Membership providing access to all of Sea Palms’ amenities is available but not required. A perfect chance to own a totally renovated and completely furnished turnkey unit – all you need is your toothbrush. Close to restaurants and shops on beautiful St. Simons Island! Sea Palms Country Club Living at its Best: Restaurant, Pool, Golf, work-out facility, tennis, Friday Night entertainment. And as a condo owner, you'll receive 10% off in the restaurant/bar & use of the pool. ** Rented through April 15th by cooperative tenants but still need 24 hours to show. ** $515,000.

Bottling Sunlight

In 1927, Colonel Tillinghast L. Huston bought Butler Island, south of Darien, Georgia, at a sheriff’s sale and began construction of a residence there. A New Yorker, Huston was co-owner of the New York Yankees baseball team from 1915 to 1923. At Butler Island, Huston transformed the former rice plantation into a successful dairy farm stocked with purebred Guernsey cattle. Supplying both local and East Coast markets, the dairy produced milk, cottage cheese, and ice cream. At the same time, the farm produced and shipped crops of vegetables and fruits, such as iceberg lettuce, satsuma oranges, and lemons.

The high standards of the Butler Island Dairy were recognized in 1932 when it was approved as a supplier of vitamin D fortified milk. During the first decades of the 20th century, the disease caused by vitamin D deficiency, known as rickets, became a major threat to the wellbeing of children throughout America. Although vitamin D can be produced naturally by exposure to sunlight, as the nation became more industrialized and urban, children spent less time outdoors. According to a Brunswick Pilot article on the topic, dated July 8, 1932, even in areas with abundant sunshine, “ten to twenty percent of all babies show traces of rickets.”

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin discovered that yeast irradiated with ultraviolet light had greater vitamin D potency. When cows were fed this yeast, the vitamin was incorporated into their milk without affecting the taste or appearance. The Pilot article noted that only highly efficient dairies such as the one at Butler Island were awarded licenses to use the process. Subsequent advertisements for Butler Island Dairies referred to the milk as “Bottled Sunlight,” noting that each quart contained as much vitamin D as three teaspoons of cod liver oil.

Colonel Huston died at Butler Island in 1938. The dairy operations eventually ceased, but the farm continued to grow lettuce, beans, cauliflower, cabbage, and other produce. The cabbage, and other produce. The Huston estate sold Butler Island and the adjacent Champney Island to R. J. Reynolds, Jr. in 1949. Reynolds sold the property to the state of Georgia in 1954.

Shown here is an aerial of the Butler Island Farm from the 1939 Brunswick Pilot supplement preserved in the Coastal Georgia Historical Society archives. Also shown is a photograph of Colonel Huston, courtesy of the Library of Congress.