In 1902, a three-year-old girl arrived on Georgia’s Cumberland Island; she remained closely tied to it for decades and later opposed large-scale development
Lucy Carnegie Ricketson Ferguson spent her life on Cumberland Island, a place she fought to preserve. Developers threatened the island's natural beauty in the late 1960s, prompting a conservation campaign. Carnegie descendants and conservation groups united to protect the island from large-scale development. Congress established Cumberland Island National Seashore in…
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