The stark ruins of Dungeness mansion towered against a bright blue sky. The massive brick shell of what was once a grand Victorian estate offered mute testimony to a colorful chapter in Cumberland ...

The remains of Thomas Carnegie’s once resplendent mansion, Dungeness, are among the must-see places to visit on Cumberland Island. Once a 44-room, 40-building monolith that resembled a Scottish ...

This barrier island is a sanctuary to behold, including historic ruins and wild horses. Steeped in history and seemingly suspended in time, this enchanting Georgia barrier island offers visitors ...

There is no place quite like Cumberland Island. Its wildness is poetic; its waves echo against the shoreline with the hushed rhythm of a seagull's wings; its palmettos sway and sing in cadence ...

The famous Carnegie family built the Dungeness mansion on Cumberland Island in 1884. They visited several times a year for weeks at a time. It was an incredible house.

Cumberland Island, Ga. — The armadillos started arriving around dinnertime, stumbling on our camp- site seemingly by accident. Hairy, nearsighted, football-shaped, they were completely oblivious ...

Story and photos by Maggie FitzRoy [email protected] Much of Cumberland Island is natural wilderness. The 18-mile-long, 3-mile-wide barrier island off the Southeast Georgia coast ha… ...

At one time, the Carnegies owned about 90 percent of the island. A favorite stop for Cumberland sightseers is the Dungeness Ruins, the remains of the 59-room Queen Anne-style mansion that Thomas ...

Ned Simmons and dozens of others were asked to line up on shore by their former owner. Until the middle of January of 1815, he’d been an enslaved carpenter at the Dungeness plantation on Cumberland ...

Cumberland Island is not quite pristine wilderness, but given the options, it is wild enough. It is, after all, one of the last places in the country where you can maroon yourself on a big, wild ...

By law, Cumberland Island — the former wintertime playground of the Carnegies and Candlers where wild horses gambol among sea oat-covered dunes — must revert to as pristine a natural state as ...