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Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse
Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Tybee Island
How work, access and surfing shaped Tybee Island.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Tybee Island ( TYE-bee) is a city and a barrier island in Chatham County, Georgia, 18 miles (29 km) east of Savannah.
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1929
Work at the water’s edge
Officially renamed Savannah Beach in a publicity move in 1929, the City of Tybee Island reverted to its original name in 1978.
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1887
The shore becomes reachable
In 1887, the Central of Georgia Railway completed a rail line to Tybee Island from downtown Savannah, opening the island to waves of summertime visitors.
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Tybee Island10
Tybee Island10. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Tybee Island10
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
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ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Tybee Island is part of PeakWave's surfing catalogue.
The local record used here does not support a single founding date for the sport, so the exhibition treats its sporting identity as an accumulation of use, access and organisation.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Tybee Island is recorded at 32.000° N, 80.846° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
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Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse
Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
TODAY
Tybee Island now
Tybee remains a barrier-island city, public beach and working approach to the Savannah River, with recreation sharing a coast shaped by storms and navigation.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Tybee Island, GA - Lighthouse
AOD.US.TYBEE-ISLAND.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
Tybee Island10
AOD.US.TYBEE-ISLAND.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Tybee Island, Georgia overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.