Dykes in Savannah Georgia

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998.1980.3085.529

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Dykes in Savannah Georgia

Black and white photo of a man standing on a wooden plank attached to a wooden structure over the water.

Paper stuck to back reads: The site of the refuge at Savanah, Georgia, was once occupied by vast rice plantation in active production fro almost a century from 1800. The dykes, canals, and flood gates (called trunk gates because hollow tree trunks were originally used/ for the aqueducts) were maintained by slave labor. Because of tidal rise of the adjacent Savannah River and the system of canals this refuge probaly has the most nearly complete water control of any in the Atlantic Flyway system.

Other notations on back read: Oct. 1963 Frontiers, 4inches wide 3.75 inches deep, Zinc H.7. use blue crops

From Nature Collection Folder

Spiker, LaRue

Savannah, Georgia

LaRue Spiker Collection