Amazing Cumberland Island.
It is unlikely to find three types of miscellaneous ecosystems on one island and this is the case of Cumberland Island and Cumberland Island , which forms the westernmost of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean Earth point.
Starting amazing oak trees surrounded by Spanish moss, which gives them the appearance of an enchanted forest extracted from the Lord of the Rings; vast palm groves of palm to incredible beaches inhabited by wild horses can be seen in this strange island belonging to the state of Georgia.
At the time the Spanish arrived in 1566, to name it the Island of San Pedro, built a garrison and mission of San Pedro de Mocama. The Mocama was Native Americans, people living in coastal areas of what are now northern Florida and southeastern Georgia and spoke a dialect known as Timucua language. The island was under the rule of the chieftainship Tacatacuru. In 1683, French pirates attacked Cumberland Island, producing the looting and burning of many buildings. Many indigenous and Spanish missionaries fled the island.
An attack in 1684 by the Spanish pirate Thomas Jingle led to the final abandonment of the island. In the late seventeenth century the organization was Mocama disintegrated due to wars and infectious diseases. Most of the Mocamas had converted to Christianity before leaving the island.
After the British defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742, the need for strong finished.
When the naturalist William Bartram visited it in 1774 the island was virtually uninhabited.
At the time of the great oak plantations began in 1783 until 1880 when it was purchased by the Carnegie family for their winter vacation retreat. These were Scottish steel magnates, built on the island Dungeness Mansion, golf courses, swimming pools and 40 buildings to house 200 staff.
With the Great Depression remained empty mansion and Carnegie stopped frequenting the island. The mansion was burned by a poacher, Carnegie nowadays is owners of 90% of the island. Currently, Cumberland is a nature reserve. The island is famous for its wild horses, are also sharks in it its shores, white-tailed deer, squirrels, raccoons, nine-banded armadillos, wild boar and American crocodiles. The island is only accessible by boat.
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