Port of Darien

Port of Darien is a Georgia historical marker in McIntosh County, dedicated 2003.

Can be reached from Fort King George Drive (State Highway 25) near Ocean Highway (U.S. 17), on the right when traveling east in Darien.

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Situated ten miles from the Atlantic near the mouth of the Altamaha River, Darien attained prominence as a seaport in the 1820s. Rice and upland cotton from Georgia 's interior were shipped from this waterfront. From 1870 to 1900, Darien served as the leading international timber center on the east coast through the milling and shipment of yellow pine and cypress rafted down the Altamaha River. With the decline of the timber trade, Darien turned to the commercial harvest of seafood and was homeport to a large shrimp fleet by the 1940s.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1852 · Georgia, Florida. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1866 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1870 · Johnson's Florida (1870) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Intestinal diseases deaths US. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Intestinal diseases deaths US, 1874, covering the location of Port of Darien, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Intestinal diseases deaths US, 1874, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This historical marker is part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program and was erected by the Georgia Historical Society. Marker texts and locations come from the Society's own marker database.

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