Georgia Has a Coast?
St. Simon&#x27;s Island was a childhood vacation spot for me. I loved it. Having gone back just this year for the first time in over 20 years, I realized I like it even more now that I can enjoy the small-beach-town atmosphere and the deep-rooted history.<p>It&#x27;s not Orlando, It&#x27;s not Miami, it&#x27;s not even Jacksonville. It&#x27;s a tiny little spot with decent beaches, a long history that&#x27;s reasonably-well-preserved, and quiet relaxation.<p>The marsh that&#x27;s pictured in this article (labelled &quot;boardwalk over marsh&quot;) looks like the Bloody Marsh [0], the site of the battle that was the &quot;last straw&quot; for the Spanish in their attempts to claim land further up from Florida (which used to extend a bit farther north than it does today).<p>The colony of Georgia was chartered by Britain around this area in part as a  response to that &quot;invasion&quot;, in an attempt to protect the important British port of Charleston up in Carolina (before the NC&#x2F;SC split). Of course, the other key motivation was to have a whole bunch of land to use as an alternative to overcrowded debtor&#x27;s prisons, so there&#x27;s that.<p>This is in part why Savannah (another beautiful historic coastal spot in Georgia, though a much larger one) was so significant to the state for so much of its early history: it was the first planned city in the state, as evidenced by the fact that it&#x27;s home to the oldest still-standing building in the entire state (a gardener&#x27;s shed built in the early 1700s, now part of a tourist-trap restaurant).<p>All this to say: yes, Georgia definitely has a coast, and it&#x27;s worth seeing (in this HNer&#x27;s opinion), and worth preserving.