Georgia's Coastal Ghost Town

 Boat and bayou, Sunbury Road, Liberty County, Georgia.

A skiff lies abandoned on the bank of a small bayou in the lazy sunlight of Georgia's coastal Liberty County near the ancient village of Sunbury. 

Established in 1758 on the south bank of the Midway River, Sunbury soon became an important port city, even rivaling Savannah. Destroyed by the British near the end of the Revolutionary War, the town was later devastated by an epidemic of Yellow Fever and two hurricanes. General Sherman completed the destruction of Sunbury in 1864 and the place became a ghost town.

Sunbury Cemetery, home of the ghosts.

Today, a few people still live in Sunbury, along with its ghosts and its cemetery, the final resting place of many prominent citizens of Sunbury and Midway. It has been estimated that there were hundreds of burials in the cemetery, but only 34 grave markers still stand, the oldest dated 1788.

(Both photographs were made with a Canon EOS 5D Classic digital camera, one of my all-time best workhorse cameras. The lens used for both pictures was the Canon EF 24-85mm f3.5-4.5 zoom.)

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